[GTALUG] Rogers and MTU size

[Scott Allen]

On 4 January 2015 at 12:55, James Knott <james.knott at rogers.com> wrote:
> You can
> verify the MTU with a ping -s 1500 <destination>.  If that works, then
> you have a 1500 byte MTU along the entire path to the destination.

My router says that the address of the gateway that it's connected to
is 24.246.95.97. If I ping this address I get:

$ ping -s 1500 24.246.95.97
PING 24.246.95.97 (24.246.95.97) 1500(1528) bytes of data.
1508 bytes from 24.246.95.97: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=12.2 ms
1508 bytes from 24.246.95.97: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=13.5 ms
1508 bytes from 24.246.95.97: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=15.7 ms
1508 bytes from 24.246.95.97: icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=12.1 ms
^C
--- 24.246.95.97 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3004ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.151/13.429/15.765/1.449 ms


-- 
Scott