Yes...Ethernet maximum MTU is 1508.
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, plug bert wrote: > Hello All! > > i've set up two rh9 linux boxes with Linksys > gigabit cards connected via a 1 meter UTP CAT5 > crossover cable...but the best speed/bandwidth i could > get out of them was 272Mbps(according to iperf). i'm > thinking that i need to tweak the TCP/IP MTU settings > to get better performance, i.e. making it larger than > 1500. > > However, whenever i try setting it to >1500, via > ifconfig or ip net link set eth1 mtu 2000, i always > get an "invalid argument" error. There seems to be a > hard limit of 1500 set somewhere(i first noticed this > when setting the MTU on iperf didn't work)...problem > is, i don't know where B). Any suggestions? > > > i plan to use the gigabit link for backing up data > from one pc to the backup pc. > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > -- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
