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Re: changing MRU/MTU in ppp connection..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Prince)
Sun Nov 10 07:36:19 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 07:31:12 -0400
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From: Rick Prince <rprince@highway1.com>
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At 03:16 AM 11/10/96 -0700, you wrote:
>i managed to connect using ppp on RH4.0, but i cannot change the
>MTU..although i expressed exclusively in my connection script.
>here's the script and result from netstat -i
>
>exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug modem crtscts /dev/modem 115200\
> asyncmap 200A0000 escape FF kdebug 0 $LOCAL_IP:$REMOTE_IP \
> vj-max-slots 8 mru 1500 mtu 1500 -chap -pap \
> noipdefault netmask $NETMASK defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT
>
>localhost<root>[32]% netstat -i
>Kernel Interface table
>Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR
>Flags
>lo 3584 0 12 0 0 0 12 0 0 0
>BLRU
>eth0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>BRU
>ppp0 296 0 253 1 1 0 223 0 0 0
>PRU
> ^^^^^^
> shouldn't it be 1500?
The only way I know of setting MTU is through 'ifconfig'. Once your
connected through your modem/ppp, you can manually do this or stick it in
your modem script enter:
ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1500
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