Re: what happend? MTU value

From: Noi (noi_at_siam.com)
Date: 10/30/03


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 08:31:35 GMT

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:23:43 +0000, Nick without thinking wrote:

> Hi,
> Just upgraded my colo server to RedHat 9, when I returned from London I
> found I could only see my server from a dialup, the server could be seen
> from some ADSL networks but not others, it turned out the MTU value for
> eth0 needed to be set to 1400. I have a 3c905c card is there any issues
> with these or did I do something wrong in setting up? also how do i ensure
> eth0 comes up with the correct value.
> Nick.

I think the default MTU for ethernet is 1500.
A simple 'ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400' in the your init script should work,
like in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/s99local.

Otherwise just ifconfig eth0 mtu 1400



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