nic MTU setting

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Old 08-24-2008, 07:32 AM
Default nic MTU setting

Where do I _permanently_ set the MTU size for a particular nic (rl0) ?
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Old 08-24-2008, 07:39 AM
Default Re: nic MTU setting

Brendon Gleeson wrote in news:d0e595b3-cf62-
41ea-86bb-60b2b6780e1e@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com:

> Where do I _permanently_ set the MTU size for a particular nic (rl0) ?


Do it in hostname.rl0, e.g. like this:

inet 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 NONE mtu 4128

or, if you prefer dhcp

dhcp mtu 4128

The man page is hostname.if(5)
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Old 08-24-2008, 07:48 AM
Default Re: nic MTU setting

thanks, I bumped into the answer in "man hostname.if"
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