where do you set MTU in gentoo

carbon · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 455 Location: New York

where do you set MTU in gentoo?
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compu-tom · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:26 pm Post subject:

Take a look at /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0:

carbon · Guru Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 455 Location: New York

what MRU
a larger value is suppose to make the recieve end able to recieve larger chunk of data?
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devon · l33t Joined: 23 Jun 2003 Posts: 943

IIRC, the MTU/MRU of both ends are negogiated when the two hosts establish their TCP connection. So if one end hads a MTU of 1500 bytes and the receiving end has a MRU of only 1492, the sender will send packets =<1492 and not the full 1500.

Check out http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc879.html