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PPPoE was such an ugly mess. In its early days there were various server-side OSes (IRIX and one other I can't remember) that had piss-poor TCP/IP MTU implemen
by hylaride 7y ago
PPPoE was such an ugly mess. In its early days there were various server-side OSes (IRIX and one other I can't remember) that had piss-poor TCP/IP MTU implementations. The result was that you ran into random websites that just took forever to load as packets that happened to not fill the full 1492 limits eventually got the data through. By around 2003 i rarely encountered it anymore, but then I moved to a place with cable and never had to deal with it again.