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On 02/12/11 19:28, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > It shouldn't be. I run it on lots of Linux boxes myself. You need the > kernel ppp and pppoe drivers and it more or less just works. You can't > get the full 1500 byte MTU though - 2 reasons - one is that the V120 > limits it to 1492.... Isn't that PPPoE limit, 1492 + 8 bytes for the ppp and pppoe headers = 1500. Ah I found it - someone proposed changing that and treating PPP headers as part of the ethernet headers. Sounds like an exceedingly bad idea to change such things to reduce the overheads by 0.5%. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq