Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 20:43:44 -0700 From: Avleen Vig <lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com> To: Dennis George <easyeinfo@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Finding MTU Message-ID: <20040830034344.GG54961@silverwraith.com> In-Reply-To: <20040830025527.88596.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040830025527.88596.qmail@web53908.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:55:27PM -0700, Dennis George wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anybody tell me how to find the MTU (Maximum Transmitting Unit) in
> freeBSD programatically...
Define programatically?
With syscalls, or in a way that is easily repeatable?
If you just mean the latter, this will do it:
ifconfig -a | awk '/mtu/ { print $1, $NF }'
Otherwise, try man networking and look for the word 'mtu', that might
be a good start.
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