mtu

[Kerry Hoath]

What sort of card is it and what sort of transferrs
are you trying to increase t he speed of?
Remember ssh requires cpu for encryptian and
samba has other options you set to increase speed.

Regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:26:25PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi Johan. Did you raise the mtu? Because this is what I'm trying to do to try and improve transfer rates. The mtu used to increase the performance of my card when I used to use winblows. I already notice a speed difference under Linux, I just want to try and max it out that's all. 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Johan Bergström <johbe at linux.se>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:34 AM
> Subject: Re: mtu
> 
> 
> > 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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