Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:52:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: Dave Dunaway <bela@nivek.org>, Gabriel <gmains@southwind.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you lower MTU?? Message-ID: <20000615175243.A16491@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20000615224402.S74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from "Ben Smithurst" on Thu Jun 15 22:44:02 GMT 2000 References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0006101712100.660-100000@jasper.southwind.net> <20000611145847.Q38859@nivek.org> <20000615224402.S74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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In the last episode (Jun 15), Ben Smithurst said: > Dave Dunaway wrote: > >> How can I set my MTU in ed0 to 1450 and make it perminant? I am in > >> 4.0R. > > > > man ifconfig. > > duh. You seem to have missed "make it perminant". If you just use > ifconfig the change will be lost when you reboot. The correct answer > (in addition to "man ifconfig" which he may already know) is to add > the ifconfig command to /etc/rc.local so it's executed on every > reboot. The more correcter answer is to add "mtu 1450" to the ifconfig_ed0 line in /etc/rc.conf . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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