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Optimising MTU setting in PPPoE ADSL Connections
With ADSL it is not always a matter of finding the highest MTU that works. All packets are transferred as multiples of 48 bytes over the link to the exchange, padding if necessary. The padding wastes throughput, so the trick is to set the MTU at the highest value that results in an exact 48 byte multiple, allowing for the protocol overhead. With a 34 byte PPPoE protocol overhead, 1454 MTU gives a 1488 byte packet which is exactly 31 * 48. 1492 MTU gives a 1526 byte packet, which is 32*48 including 10 bytes padding. If you do the math on an 8Mb connection, that gives a real data throughput of 856kByte/sec for 1492 MTU, and 875kBytes/sec for 1454 MTU.
Optimising MTU setting in PPPoE ADSL Connections
I'm not sure I follow the math here. Each 1492 packet will be 32 48-byte chunks, for a total 1536 bytes, of which 34 are overhead, 10 padding. Each 1454 packet will be 31 chunks, for a total of 1488 bytes, of which 34 are overhead. So every 47616 bytes sent will be 31 of the 1492 packets or 32 of the 1454 packets, and |
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