Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)

From	Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes)
Date	2017-02-07 00:40 +0100
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rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
>
>    * Why are there twice as many bytes measured coming in (from
>    Earthlink) measured on the WAN VC side of the router as measured on
>    the Ethernet / LAN side of the router (or, I guess the analagous
>    question is why are the packets twice as big?  (I mean, is the
>    information encoded differently there or  something?)
>    
>    * And, can I do something to change that?

Could be MTU differences, and the router needing to do something (e.g.
1500 on the LAN side, and 1452 on the WAN, which is usually typical for
DSL / PPPoE connections).

It's a bit hard to figure out what you're actually seeing happen though,
since your post somehow repeated itself several times, in a pretty big
mess (there wasn't a given start / end of one post, but rather several
copies interleaved).

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Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-06 23:30 +0100
  Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router  are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as  many bytes) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-02-07 00:40 +0100
    Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-07 01:20 +0100
      Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes) Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-07 01:30 +0100
    Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-07 01:30 +0100
      Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router  are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as  many bytes) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-02-07 11:40 +0100
        Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-07 14:20 +0100
          Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router  are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as  many bytes) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-02-09 13:40 +0100
            Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as many bytes) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-02-09 14:10 +0100
              Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router  are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as  many bytes) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-09 14:20 +0100
              Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router  are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as  many bytes) Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-02-09 17:00 +0100
              Re: Why packets (from my ISP to me) on the WAN VC side of my router  are twice the size of packets on the Ethernet (and a corresponding twice as  many bytes) GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-09 17:30 +0100

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