Does anyone know how to or know of a web page where I can find how to change the MTU speed in Unix registry? Any info. would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi, Just want to ask on how to check and change the MTU size of the nodes from 1500 to 9000? I need to match the MTU size of some cluster nodes which has 1500 to the others with 9000 because they are inconsistent. Thanks (1 Reply)
Hi,
Curious problem with IPV6. Situation is wget request from squid proxy via intermediate router. With IPV4 (wget -4) speed is ~100MB/sec. With IPV6 (wget -6) it drops to 30KB/sec.
Examining the traffic with tcpdump shows that the squid box is regularly sending out over-sized packets (>MTU)... (5 Replies)
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Can any one please help me increase the arp stale time of an ipv6 interface on linux platform ?
I have tried increasing the variable gc_stale_time but that doesnt work.
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Hi Al,
In course of understanding networking in Solaris, I have these doubts on Interfaces. Please clarify me. I have done fair research in this site and others but could not be clarified.
1. In the "ifconfig -a" command, I see many interfaces and their configurations. But I see many... (1 Reply)
Couldn't find an IRIX forum, so I'm posting to this one...
Just had our SAs rebuild an IRIX machine and now I need to set the MTU to 1344 (vice 1500 default). I can set it manually using the ifconfig command, but it won't survive a reboot. I made an entry into the /etc/init.d/ifconfig-1.options... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I have created a bonding bond1 interface with 6 Eth , mode=4. Recently i have changed my old ipv6 to new one and tried to restart as well as reload network service. Post which i can see old as well as changed ipv6 in ifconfig command output. Below are few files and command output for your... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
inetutils-ifconfig
IFCONFIG(1) User Commands IFCONFIG(1)NAME
ifconfig - configure network interfaces
SYNOPSIS
ifconfig [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
NAME [ADDR] [broadcast BRDADDR] [pointopoint|dstaddr DSTADDR]
[netmask MASK] [metric N] [mtu N] [txqueuelen N] [up|down] [FLAGS]
Configure network interfaces.
-a, --all
display all available interfaces
-A, --address=ADDR
set interface address to ADDR
-B, -b, --broadcast=ADDR, --brdaddr=ADDR
set broadcast address to ADDR
-d, -p, --dstaddr=ADDR, --peer=ADDR
set destination (peer) address to ADDR
--down shut the interface down
--format=FORMAT
select output format (or set back to default)
-F, --flags=FLAG[,FLAG...] set interface flags
-i, --interface=NAME
configure network interface NAME
-m, --netmask=MASK
set netmask to MASK
--metric=N
set metric of interface to N
-M, --mtu=N
set mtu of interface to N
-s, --short
short output format
--up activate the interface (default if address is given)
-v, --verbose
output information when configuring interface
Linux-specific options
-T, --txqlen=N
set transmit queue length to N
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
Known flags are: allmulti, automedia, debug, loopback, multicast, portsel, running, trailers, up
AUTHOR
Written by Marcus Brinkmann.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-inetutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for ifconfig is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and ifconfig programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
info ifconfig
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU inetutils 1.9 December 2011 IFCONFIG(1)