I'll answer my own question. Hopefully, it will get indexed well by search engines next time people search for "ntop mtu". I found out that the compile-time option --enable-jumbo-frames will fix my problem.
Robin On Oct 20, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Robin wrote: > Hi, > > I've an interface, bond0, with MTU 9000. > > Running ntop-4.0.1 and it's started with > $DAEMON -d -i eth0,eth0.4003,eth1,eth1.110 -u ntop -w 3000 -s --use-syslog > > ntop webpage (the front page, Global Traffic Statistics) is showing that the > mtu size is 1512. > > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:C9:07:62:C8 > inet addr:192.168.251.16 Bcast:192.168.251.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::202:c9ff:fe07:62c8/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1 > RX packets:1037076804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1057147360 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:2477135790008 (2.2 TiB) TX bytes:2686687410282 (2.4 TiB) > > Google Search revealed that there's a message back in 2007 about it: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg05198.html > > There are no answers to the poster. > > ntop is saying that the MTU size is 1514. Are there any ways to set the MTU > size "manually", since the auto-detected value is not correct ? > > Thanks, > Robin > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
