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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


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