Re: MTU to CDN's

["Radu-Adrian Feurdean" <nanog () radu-adrian feurdean net>]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018, at 01:14, Jared Mauch wrote:
> If you’re then doing DSL + PPPoE and your customers really see a MTU
> of 1492 or less, then another device has to fragment 5x again.

In this part of the world we have even worse stuff around: PPP over L2TP over over IP with 1500 MTU interconnection. 
Remove another 40 bytes. Add some more headers for various tunneling scenarios and you may get into a situation where 
even 1400 is too much.  But it usually works with MSS clamping to the correct value. Some small ISPs don't even make 
the effort to check if the transport supports "more than 1500" in order to give the 1500 bytes to the customer - they 
just clamp down MSS.