I just noticed (I've been using LEAF for a couple of
years now) that the MTU for eth0 and eth1 is set at
1500 but the MTU for ppp0 is 1492. I'm told that's to
make room for an 8-byte pppoe header.

Is there any efficiency gain to matching the ethx MTUs
to the ppp0 MTU?

-John


1: lo:  mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd
00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
2: dummy0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noop 
    link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth0:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100
    link/ether 00:10:4b:00:64:c4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eth1:  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 100
    link/ether 00:60:08:08:78:81 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.254/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope
global eth1
5: ppp0:  mtu 1492 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 3
    link/ppp 
    inet 138.88.95.206 peer 10.1.61.1/32 scope global
ppp0


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