From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 15:54:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE9837B868 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA16890; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:52:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:52:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Dave Dunaway , Gabriel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do you lower MTU?? Message-ID: <20000615175243.A16491@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000611145847.Q38859@nivek.org> <20000615224402.S74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.3i In-Reply-To: <20000615224402.S74118@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from "Ben Smithurst" on Thu Jun 15 22:44:02 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 15), Ben Smithurst said: > Dave Dunaway wrote: > >> How can I set my MTU in ed0 to 1450 and make it perminant? I am in > >> 4.0R. > > > > man ifconfig. > > duh. You seem to have missed "make it perminant". If you just use > ifconfig the change will be lost when you reboot. The correct answer > (in addition to "man ifconfig" which he may already know) is to add > the ifconfig command to /etc/rc.local so it's executed on every > reboot. The more correcter answer is to add "mtu 1450" to the ifconfig_ed0 line in /etc/rc.conf . -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message