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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@yahoo.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: mtu
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:26:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002d01c1d4fc$1f59a3e0$01213e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0203260832510.4190-100000@c213-100-2-58.swipnet.se>

Hi Johan. Did you raise the mtu? Because this is what I'm trying to do to try and improve transfer rates. The mtu used to increase the performance of my card when I used to use winblows. I already notice a speed difference under Linux, I just want to try and max it out that's all. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Johan Bergström <johbe@linux.se>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: mtu


> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote:
> 
> > Hi. Has anyone successfully changed their mtu value on their network
> >interface? I am unable to do this via /etc/network/interfaces. I put mtu
> >1000 after the line where it says iface eth0 inet dhcp. I restarted inetd
> >and init, and the value hasn't changed. Does anyone know how to go about
> >doing this? Thanks!
> >
> 
> Why would you want to change your mtu? The standards say mtu 1500 for
> ethernet. Anyway, I did do some tests a couple of years ago, and changing
> mtu values on a network card almost never give better results than the
> standard ones. It might happen in extreme cases but not one that I found
> out about.
> 
> Johbe
> 
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 mtu Igor Gueths
 ` mtu Johan Bergström
   ` Igor Gueths [this message]
     ` mtu Kerry Hoath
       ` mtu Igor Gueths
         ` mtu Kerry Hoath
           ` mtu Igor Gueths
     ` mtu Johan Bergström
 ` mtu Kerry Hoath
   ` mtu Igor Gueths
     ` mtu Kerry Hoath
       ` mtu Igor Gueths
         ` Getting Ready to Take the Plunge Liz Hare
           ` Kirk Reiser
         ` mtu Kerry Hoath
       ` mtu Brian Borowski
   ` mtu Igor Gueths

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