Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:36:14 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Michael E.Conlen" <meconlen@obfuscated.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pf and different MTUs Message-ID: <41FAB04E.9080606@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <7dafe99c9578eecb24e826dc7226278b@obfuscated.net> References: <7dafe99c9578eecb24e826dc7226278b@obfuscated.net>
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Michael E.Conlen wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD and PF as a firewall between two networks. I want to > change the MTU on one network to 9k but I have to leave the MTU on the > other network at 1500 bytes. Will the system handle the fragmenting for > me going from the larger MTU to the smaller? Sure. However, if you have a lot of traffic using jumbo frames going over that 1500 MTU segment, you might be better off using an MTU of 1500 everywhere. -- -Chuck
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