Re: Automatically setiting mtu

2004-01-22 Thread glenn
Hi David Thanks for reply - and explanations. You can set the MTU on an interface from /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0 inet static address 10.20.30.53 netmask 255.255.255.240 broadcast 10.20.30.63 gateway 10.20.30.49 mtu 1460 This would

Re: Automatically setiting mtu

2004-01-21 Thread David Z Maze
glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Firstly just because I used the tla MTU doesn't mean I undertand it, Maximum transmission unit, it's the largest packet size that can be sent out over some particular interface. For Ethernet the standard MTU is 1500 bytes; you can apparently get better

Automatically setiting mtu

2004-01-19 Thread glenn
Hi Firstly just because I used the tla MTU doesn't mean I undertand it, but I look after a box where I need to set it, and would like it done automatically. After a bit of googling the only way, out of many, that seems to work on this box is to delete the default route and use the route command

Re: Automatically setiting mtu

2004-01-19 Thread Jan Minar
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:56:51AM +1100, glenn wrote: Firstly just because I used the tla MTU doesn't mean I undertand it, but I look after a box where I need to set it, and would like it done automatically. The way to set a MTU is (assuming you have the iproute package installed): # ip l s