[GTALUG] Rogers and MTU size

[Scott Allen]

On 4 January 2015 at 12:55, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:
> If you're running dhcpcd, you can edit
> /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp and change the line 'DHCPCD_USER_OPTIONS=""'
> to 'DHCPCD_USER_OPTIONS="-M"'.  This will disable the DHCP MTU setting
> and use the configured MTU.

What does this pertain to? The router WAN side, router LAN side, or
client machine(s)?

My Internet connection, provided by Teksavvy, is on the Rogers cable
network. Running ifconfig on my desktop machine I get:

eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
          inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::bexx:xxff:fexx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:260045 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:221024 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:250671109 (250.6 MB)  TX bytes:33714522 (33.7 MB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:20203 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20203 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2392082 (2.3 MB)  TX bytes:2392082 (2.3 MB)


-- 
Scott