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pppoe-server: reduce min MTU
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Description

We have too high min MTU (min-mtu=1492) in our pppoe server implementation, I propose to reduce min-mtu=1280 for better compatibility with clients.

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Difficulty level
Unknown (require assessment)
Version
-
Why the issue appeared?
Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type
Improvement (missing useful functionality)

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Mentioned In
1.3.3

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Unknown Object (User) created this task.Jun 16 2020, 8:49 AM
erkin set Issue type to Improvement (missing useful functionality).Aug 30 2021, 5:24 AM
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Viacheslav changed the task status from Open to In progress.Feb 8 2023, 12:27 PM
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Viacheslav added a project: VyOS 1.4 Sagitta.

PR 1.4 https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/pull/1804
PR 1.3 https://github.com/vyos/vyos-1x/pull/1806

set service pppoe-server authentication local-users username user1 password 'user1'
set service pppoe-server authentication mode 'local'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool start '192.0.2.10'
set service pppoe-server client-ip-pool stop '192.0.2.100'
set service pppoe-server gateway-address '192.0.2.1'
set service pppoe-server interface eth1

pppoe.conf

vyos@r14# cat /run/accel-pppd/pppoe.conf | grep mtu -B 5
[ppp]
verbose=1
check-ip=1
ccp=0
unit-preallocate=0
min-mtu=1280