Re: [newbie] mru mtu settings
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hi I wonder if anyone has taking time to adjust there mru or mtu settings? If you have what were the settings you used? I have been told not to adjust them by my provider. But I read somewhere that they need to be adjusted to get the best speed possible from my modem That hangs on which type of interface you have, PPP ethernet, ifconfig and route are your friends the man pages explane what thay are for. Thanks Hugh -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] mru mtu settings
Listen to your provider. From what I have been able to obtain in the way of information this is more necessary when winmodems and Windows are involved. Also, one may want to adjust them carefully. You may increase your traffic over the net one way or the other at the expense of the other processes you are running on your computer at the time. This isn't the final word though. If you hear something different feel free to play with those settings and let us know of the results. Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hugh Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 12:50 AM To: newbie Subject: [newbie] mru mtu settings Hi I wonder if anyone has taking time to adjust there mru or mtu settings? If you have what were the settings you used? I have been told not to adjust them by my provider. But I read somewhere that they need to be adjusted to get the best speed possible from my modem Thanks Hugh
Re: [newbie] mru mtu settings
The default is 1500/1500. These are high values that will give you optimal throughput with minimal overhead, assuming your ISP supports them. If you are getting reasonable throughput with the defaults, don't change them. Many ISPs, however, don't support the high linux mtu default value. I've heard this is because a certain widely used less capable OS uses a lower value. If your connection seems extraordinarily slow, try setting your mtu value to 572. I got this number from a usenet post, and it worked to speed up my abysmally slow Mindspring connection immensely. --Ian Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Hugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wonder if anyone has taking time to adjust there mru or mtu settings? If you have what were the settings you used? I have been told not to adjust them by my provider. But I read somewhere that they need to be adjusted to get the best speed possible from my modem Thanks Hugh _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] mru mtu settings
Thanks so much for the advice. This setting seems to have done the trick. The default is 1500/1500. These are high values that will give you optimal throughput with minimal overhead, assuming your ISP supports them. If you are getting reasonable throughput with the defaults, don't change them. Many ISPs, however, don't support the high linux mtu default value. I've heard this is because a certain widely used less capable OS uses a lower value. If your connection seems extraordinarily slow, try setting your mtu value to 572. I got this number from a usenet post, and it worked to speed up my abysmally slow Mindspring connection immensely. --Ian Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---Hugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wonder if anyone has taking time to adjust there mru or mtu settings? If you have what were the settings you used? I have been told not to adjust them by my provider. But I read somewhere that they need to be adjusted to get the best speed possible from my modem Thanks Hugh _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
