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
> 
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