Re: Adjusting MTU
maybe ifconfig could help you, some of the way ?
$ ifconfig eth1 mtu 1250
$ man 8 ifconfig
im not sure where to put this , to make sure its there at startup (the
Debian way). Maybe somebody else can help with that?
* Ryan Tucker (rtucker@isp-direct.com) wrote:
> Greetings...
>
> I'm trying to find the "Debian Way" to adjust the MTU on an interface...
> basically, we have a box behind a firewall which is blocking the ICMP
> Can't Fragment packets, and we're sending fairly large data packets
> through, and, well, the obvious problem occurs. They can put a little
> firewall on the LAN which has an MTU adjustment (and sends the packets
> back), which fixes the problem nicely, but that's kinda a hack.
>
> I checked "man interfaces", but didn't see anything too obvious...
>
> I'm running Woody on this box.
>
> Thanks! -rt
>
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