Hope you're well. Got my HH5A today, trying to set up the network. In the network -> interfaces -> devices section, I've forgot the default settings. I accidentally changed something, knocked the internet offline, and now I'm not sure whats correct.
It says config interface 'wan' option MTU should be 1500.
My settings are:
pppoe-wan 1492
dsl0.101 1500
eth0 1508
wan 1500.
I'm confused as to which I should be setting as 1500. Am I right in that it should be in the interfaces tab, Click Edit on this one:
Advanced settings, override MTU from 1492 to 1500?
Update 05/02 - If I change the pppoe-wan ipv4 MTU to 1500 it works fine still (i think) and I can ping 1472 instead of 1464. Assuming this is the only change I need to do.
Instead of overriding I believe I previously configured the pppoe-wan to 1500, I think it worked.
Currently at these settings I can only ping a packet of 1464.
When it was overridden or set to 1500 I could ping 1472.
Is eth0 as 1508 correct - I'm reading stuff about an 8 packet overhead which I guess is automatically in the right place..
Normally, the mtu with PPPoE should be 1492 - some ISPs allow baby-jumbo frames, to let you pass 1500 bytes net mtu through it, but those are relatively rare (so it's unclear if this applies to you).
So after some testing, 1500 MTU on pppoe-wan does let me send 1472 packets instead of 1464. It seems to be setting the ipv6 to 1500 as well.
So on this website: https://test-ipv6.com/ I get a 10/10 score on both MTUs 1492 and 1500. There's a tab called other IPv6 sites. When I'm set to 1492 I can access all but 2 just fine. When I'm set to 1500 I can access only a couple. Seems IPv6 MTU of 1500 is breaking my access to websites and I don't understand why.
BT should support baby jumbo frames, and appears to, so I'm not sure why this is happening. What if I set a different MTU size for IPv4 and 6, will this break things further?
