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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:48:48 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Val Smith <vmsmith@grokking.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PMTU discovery?
Message-ID:  <20030717174847.GB61660@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030717130815.58934a3a.vmsmith@grokking.org>
References:  <20030717130815.58934a3a.vmsmith@grokking.org>

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In the last episode (Jul 17), Val Smith said:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a quick question and hope it isn't too
> newb :)
> 
> Does FBSD support PMTU discovery on ethernet
> interfaces and, if so, how is it enabled? I've
> looked in the man pages for both ifconfig and xl
> but could only seem to find reference to manually
> setting MTU, not autodiscovery. I know how to set
> this with windows registry but want it for a FBSD
> 5.1 workstation as well.

sysctl net.inet.tcp.path_mtu_discovery

It defaults to 1 (enabled).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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