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Nil Einne
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:43 am Post subject:
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Hey all,
Ever since I came across Lawrence Baldwin's site, I've been trying to
work out what the optimal max MTU for a ADSL connection with PPPoA.
His site discusses PPPoE but he mentions and I think he's right he's
made a few mistakes and he's given up on it.
Anyway, I've been looking into it and best as I can make out, for
VC-mux the optimal highest MTU commonly supported would be 1480. AAL5
with VC-mux has a 8 byte SAR trailer at the end of the last cell and
is padded if necessary. With a 1480 byte MTU, 30 of the cells with
have a full 48 bytes of data, the last cell will have 40 bytes of data
and the 8 byte trailer.
With SNAP/LLC, the optimal MTU should be 1472 since it adds a 8 byte
header.
I think all this is correct assuming I'm right that a 1480 byte IP
transmission unit means 1480 bytes through the ATM link. I'm still not
clear if there is any other overhead I'm missing. Lawrence's site
suggests there is ethernet overhead but I think he's wrong??? If there
is a 38 byte ethernet overhead that is sent through the ADSL ATM link,
then the optimal max MTU would be 1490 I think (for VC-mux)?
For PPPoE, there is another 8 bytes of overhead to consider of
course...
P.S. This is only relevant if you want to get the maximum out of your
modem's ADSL link. If, for example, your ISP does not give the maximum
from your link but does traffic shaping later on, it doesn't really
matter, in fact a max MTU of 1500 is optimal since this minimises
TCP/UDP overhead. |
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David Efflandt
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:43 am Post subject:
Re: Overhead on ADSL with PPPoA; optimising MTU |
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On 23 Sep 2004 16:43:33 -0700, Nil Einne <nil_einne1@email.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hey all,
Ever since I came across Lawrence Baldwin's site, I've been trying to
work out what the optimal max MTU for a ADSL connection with PPPoA.
His site discusses PPPoE but he mentions and I think he's right he's
made a few mistakes and he's given up on it.
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I read a bunch about the theory of optimum PPPoE MTU based on filling ATM
cells. But an evening of testing from 1492 to 1400 with a stable
connection that tested consistantly within 1 or 2 kbps for multiple tests
at any given MTU, nothing for me beat the maximum PPPoE MTU of 1492,
although, MTU 1400 was close.
This was easy to test with Linux, because its ifconfig allows easily
changing its pppoe MTU on the fly. The fact that MTU actually changed was
confirmed using ping with specified data size and "do not fragment" flag
(max successful ping data + 28 = mtu).
Maybe my ISP doing PPPoE over L2TP throws a wrench in such ATM cell
calculations. But my conclusion was that dropping my MTU from its maximum
within that range did not gain me anything, and at worst was
insignificantly slower. Test results may vary if you have path MTU
discovery problems or other issues. |
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NoOne
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Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:37 am Post subject:
Re: Overhead on ADSL with PPPoA; optimising MTU |
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"Nil Einne" <nil_einne1@email.com> wrote in message
news:3bafcd2d.0409231543.703d03a5@posting.google.com...
| Quote: | Hey all,
Ever since I came across Lawrence Baldwin's site, I've been trying to
work out what the optimal max MTU for a ADSL connection with PPPoA.
His site discusses PPPoE but he mentions and I think he's right he's
made a few mistakes and he's given up on it.
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http://www.dslreports.com/faq/5793
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