Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

[Wayne Topa <linuxone@intergate.com>]

Dave Stephenson(dastephenson232@gmail.com) is reported to have said:
> I feel like I am missing something obvious.
> 
> here is my  interfaces file:
> 
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # The primary network interface
> #allow-hotplug eth0
> #iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> auto eth0
> 
> #force higher speed in spite of signal peak & dhcp
> #mtu 1500
> 
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500

Did you do /etc/init/d/networking force-reload
after adding this to th interfaces file?

> 
> 
> and here is the result of ifconfig:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:F3:86:8C:92
>           inet addr:192.168.0.7  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:
> 255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:576  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:1112 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:327004 (319.3 KiB)  TX bytes:126844 (123.8 KiB)
>           Interrupt:58 Base address:0xe000

I added the pre-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500 and forced-reloaded
and my ifconfig _did_ show the change.

Wayne

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