mtu

[Johan Bergström]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi. Has anyone successfully changed their mtu value on their network
>interface? I am unable to do this via /etc/network/interfaces. I put mtu
>1000 after the line where it says iface eth0 inet dhcp. I restarted inetd
>and init, and the value hasn't changed. Does anyone know how to go about
>doing this? Thanks!
>

Why would you want to change your mtu? The standards say mtu 1500 for
ethernet. Anyway, I did do some tests a couple of years ago, and changing
mtu values on a network card almost never give better results than the
standard ones. It might happen in extreme cases but not one that I found
out about.

Johbe

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