From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:kt1hc2lpvgq323afjvq1uo62forqk1phki{at}4ax.com...
> Randall Parker
>

> wrote in message news::
>
> > [randall{at}localhost ~]$ ping 216.144.8.1 -s 1500
>
> Perhaps Geo intended to include the Windows -f option which tells ping to
> mark the packet as "Don't Fragment". Ping should be able to send up to
> almost 64K bytes in one packet (that's the maximum IP datagram size).

No, for a dsl line you don't need to do that because I'm not testing the
tcp network I'm testing the tunnel (usually it's PPPoA that has this
problem with MTU)

Geo.

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