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| Setting the MTU automatically in Debian |
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Tuesday, August 03 2004 @ 11:14 PM CDT By David L. Farquhar
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I run this website off a server running on an ADSL line in a spare bedroom of my home. My server of choice is Debian, because it's Linux which makes it fast, reliable, and cheap, and Debian makes it pretty easy to install only what you want and need, so I can have a server OS that's only using 125 megabytes of disk space, leaving most of my drive available for something useful, like, oh, content.
Now, the downside of modern DSL: Southwestern Bell, like most ISPs these days, uses PPPoE. So not only can your IP address change with no notice whatsoever, you also have the hassles of PPPoE. With the default settings, some unknown but noticeably large percentage of web users won't be able to access a web server running on a DSL connection using PPPoE.
The reason is MTU and fragmentation.
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