mtu

[Kerry Hoath]

What sort of network card are you talking about?
And mtu stands for Maximum transmition unit so it referrs to the bigest packet
the kernel will *send*.
mru is maximum receive u nit but that is a ppp parameter not an ethernet one.
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:00:01PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Actually, now that I think about it, ifconfig doesn't mention receive mtu. Up to now, I have been talking about receive mtu. 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Kerry Hoath <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: mtu
> 
> 
> > 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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