Re: [coLinux-users] How set MTU and txlen?

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hol...@st...(Holger Krull)  04.06.08 09:43

Once upon a time "Holger Krull " shaped the electrons to say...

>Rainer Zocholl schrieb:

>> I ran into  the problem, that a "funny hub" on the way between
>> an SDSL and an ADSL Interface allows only an MTU of 1484!
>> That "funny hub" (maybe a hidden tunnel) fagments every paket which
>> is greater than 1484 into a first paket of unusual 1000 bytes but
>> is not generating ICMP when DF sez set, so the correct MTU
>> is undetectable by PMTUD.
>>
>> How can set set the MTU permanently?

>How about: ifconfig eth0 mtu 1484

Yes, thanks.
But
a) that should be done permanently (in debian in /etc/network/interfaces)
b) I posted the question to the wrong list. It should have been 
   posted to "ipcop-user", which a no-debian linux but has a GUI to 
   configure, but not for the MTU.

Sorry for any innconvience.