Re: Cable Modem / Internet / Built-in 10-100 Ethernet / Slows & Then Stalls...



On Sunday 08 October 2006 8:43 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 08:02:03PM -0400, Richard wrote:
This is odd, (VERY)
when surfing its okay, however, when downloading like new iso image
files, or ftping... the ethernet connection seems to come to a crawl,
then stops (cold) (please note: in Window XP (oops) there was never a
problem in downloading. <little grin>

Here is my snap of ifconfig -a
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$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:25:28:93:B3
inet addr:24.92.160.221 Bcast:255.255.255.255
Mask:255.255.248.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:159889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:33
TX packets:46346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:33793861 (32.2 MiB) TX bytes:3929165 (3.7 MiB)
Interrupt:50

I presume that your cable modem is connected to eth0. Why is the MTU so
low? Generally, for a device that connects via ethernet you have an MTU
of 1492 or 1500.


How does one change the config of the eth0 ?
did raise the MTU's

Thanks -
Rich


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