On 25/07/2008, at 5:45 PM, elliott-brennan wrote:
Yes, should have at least tried to look first :)
Given (as below) the current MTU is 1500 and you're suggesting
changing this to 576, what are the consequences I should be aware of?
It's just a temporary change, next reboot will reset it, it
determines how big packets
leaving your interface will be. But if you get it wrong it could
cause your NIC to
catch on fire (I'm joking, there's nothing to worry about)
sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 576
to reset
sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500
but you don't even need to change the MTU, you can test the same
thing with ping
ping -s 100 google.com
ping -s 512 google.com
ping s 1472 google.com
(1472 will give you a packet (frame i guess) size of 1500)
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