Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP

From: Hans-Peter Jansen (hpj_at_urpla.net)
Date: 02/04/05

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    To: Richard A Nelson <cowboy@cavein.org>
    Date:	Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:54:02 +0100
    
    

    On Friday 04 February 2005 19:22, Richard A Nelson wrote:
    >
    > What will this code do at the (increasingly common) misconfigured
    > sites - many places (hotels, airports, etc) return a MTU of 64...
    > to which the DHCP3 client faithfully attempts to set, only to
    > receive:
    > SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

    Well, the ip auto configuration is mainly intended for diskless
    setups, not something, one will use in an uncontrolled environment.
    I doubt, it will behave different, as well as usual distribution
    kernels will never enable this by default..

    Pete

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