From: "Geo" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>       A bit of poking around shows that MTU is only the IP packet, so this
> confirms an MTU of 1500.   A 1500 byte MTU packet goes all they way to and
> from news.barkto.com.

Ok makes sense, now what would cause linux to try to recalculate the MTU?
Could something in the tcp flags feature you mentioned increase the size of
the ethernet but not IP packet?

Geo.

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