Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:39:08 +0200 From: Bengt Gorden <bengan@sunet.se> To: beatteam@austasia.net, FreeBSD -Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MTU Size & Connection reset by.. & Lost Input channel Message-ID: <19980915203908.A19511@sunet.se> In-Reply-To: <199809120423.VAA21992@hub.freebsd.org>; from Brett Gray on Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 02:21:36PM %2B1000 References: <199809120423.VAA21992@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 02:21:36PM +1000, Brett Gray wrote: > > b) I read something on the net about MTU size. What is MTU (I cant find > any > explaination of the term.. just references to it) Is the above problem > likely to be something to do with MTU size and where can I adjust this > setting in FreeBSD MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit It's the largest link layer datagram that can be used for a particular network. If you try to send a IP datagram that is larger than the MTU it's going to be fragmented. Different types of networks have different MTU:s. Here are a few of them: FDDI 4352 Ethernet 1500 IEEE 802.3/802.2 1492 X.25 576 (Ah, there we have an ugly one) -- /Bengan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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