On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:59, Marshall Heartley wrote:
<snip> Well I tried that but it seems that when the interface is brought up, it still uses 1500 for some reason, :(
I presume you can manually set the value using ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492
Yes and this works but I really hate having to do this everytime the machine is brought up.
Those are used for the PPP protocol I believe. Sorry, my original problems was with ppp and reading some of my old notes I got confused and added these refs in.
Just had a quick look at /etc/init.d/network which is run on boot to set up the network devices. The program which sets up the individual devices is /sbin/ifup using the config files in /etc/sysconfig/network . The man page on ifup may give you some info. Now this is where it gets a bit hazy, in /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts there are scripts for dsl, ppp, wireless, etc. I am not sure how these scripts come into play. You could try adding a couple of debug messages in these files and see what happens. Also you can turn on the debug flag in the /etc/sysconfig/network/config file (line 45). Good luck. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------