I would like to know if it is possible to reduce the MRU on an ethernet device in the same way that it is possible with the PPP code. Unfortunatly my cable internet provider seems to have broken my network link in such a way that incoming short (64 byte packets) have almost no packet loss but large (1500) byte packets have a 50% packetloss (the distribution between these extremes seems linear) While I am waiting for my ISP to find a skilled tech to look at the problem I was wondering it is possible for me to reduce the MRU on my ethernet port. I belive this should cause ICMP Fragmentation required packets to be sent in response to large packets. Hopefully this would cause the path MTU discovery on remote hosts to send smaller packets. These packets might then have a chance of arriving :) I am currently running a late 2.2 kernel - but would be willing to upgrade to 2.4 if this would offer a solution. Thankyou for your assistance Stephen - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
