RE: clue for the clueless please

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

> From: Peter Galbavy [mailto:peter.galbavy () knowledge com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 6:00 AM
>
> Yes, we intentionally (for some other reason during testing) 
> set the MTU on
> the p2p link to 554 - oops. Will get it switched back... 
> Still wondering
> though - if a normal dial-up has a lower than 1500 MTU, why 
> would they work.

Because PPP does the blocking/deblocking, at the dial port, before it goes
out to eth0.