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Document cellular hotspot MTU fix for Lima VMs - #181

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When the Mac host is on a cellular hotspot, the vzNAT interface's
default 1500-byte MTU exceeds what the end-to-end path supports,
creating a path MTU black hole: DNS, ping, and TCP handshakes work,
but HTTPS connections hang after sending the TLS ClientHello. Add a
troubleshooting subsection to the Lima section explaining the
symptom, the diagnosis, and how to persist a lower MTU on lima0 via
a Netplan override.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Superceded by #195.

@samestep samestep closed this Jul 20, 2026
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samestep deleted the lima-hotspot-mtu branch July 20, 2026 19:13
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