Bug 579866

Summary: NetworkManager doesn't use negotiated MTU for DSL connections
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Saikat Guha <sg266>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Saikat Guha 2010-04-06 18:51:10 UTC
Description of problem:
On the wire PPP negotiates MTU 1480 (upstream requests 1480, and local endhost ACKs that request), but when ppp0 comes up, MTU is set to 1492.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.7.998-2.git20100106.fc12.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a DSL connection where upstream requests MRU 1480
    (NM defaults to 'Automatic' for MTU)
2. Establish connection
3. ifconfig ppp0
  
Actual results:
MTU=1492

Expected results:
MTU=1480

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-04-06 20:22:46 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 579860 ***

Comment 2 Saikat Guha 2010-04-06 22:22:34 UTC
Are you sure it is a duplicate of bug 579860?

bug 579860 is when a *user manually overrides* the MTU in the Wired tab, those settings are not taken into account.

This bug is that the automatically negotiated MTU that happens as part of the *PPP handshake* (i.e. with default values in the Wired tab), that MTU is not taken into account.