[GTALUG] Rogers and MTU size

[James Knott]

On 01/04/2015 01:59 PM, Kevin Cozens wrote:
> On 15-01-04 12:55 PM, James Knott wrote:
>> One thing I noticed recently was that my firewall, running Linux, was
>> getting a MTU of 576 bytes, instead of the normal 1500 bytes.  This was
>> being set by the Rogers DHCP server (option 26).
> [snip]
>> I have advised Rogers of this and the person I was speaking to agreed it
>> should be 1500.  Let's see if they fix it.
>
> I am on Rogers and just checked my MTU setting after reading James'
> email. The ifconfig output reports an MTU of 1500. I didn't change any
> settings for DHCP. Rogers may have already fixed the problem.
>

Curious. I checked before I posted my original message and it was still
576.  It may be a local issue.  I'm on the Wolfedale domain, in Mississauga.