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Brendon Gleeson

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Aug 24, 2008, 7:32:26 AM8/24/08
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Where do I _permanently_ set the MTU size for a particular nic (rl0) ?

Peter Strömberg

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Aug 24, 2008, 7:39:54 AM8/24/08
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Brendon Gleeson <brendon...@gmail.com> wrote in news:d0e595b3-cf62-
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> Where do I _permanently_ set the MTU size for a particular nic (rl0) ?

Do it in hostname.rl0, e.g. like this:

inet 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 NONE mtu 4128

or, if you prefer dhcp

dhcp mtu 4128

The man page is hostname.if(5)

Brendon Gleeson

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Aug 24, 2008, 7:48:32 AM8/24/08
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thanks, I bumped into the answer in "man hostname.if"
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