From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 15 11:41:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03591 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ii.pilsnet.sunet.se (ii.pilsnet.sunet.se [192.36.125.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03580 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 11:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bengan@ii.pilsnet.sunet.se) Received: (from bengan@localhost) by ii.pilsnet.sunet.se (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA19714; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:39:09 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980915203908.A19511@sunet.se> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:39:08 +0200 From: Bengt Gorden To: beatteam@austasia.net, FreeBSD -Questions Subject: Re: MTU Size & Connection reset by.. & Lost Input channel Mail-Followup-To: beatteam@austasia.net, FreeBSD -Questions References: <199809120423.VAA21992@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809120423.VAA21992@hub.freebsd.org>; from Brett Gray on Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 02:21:36PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 02:21:36PM +1000, Brett Gray wrote: > > b) I read something on the net about MTU size. What is MTU (I cant find > any > explaination of the term.. just references to it) Is the above problem > likely to be something to do with MTU size and where can I adjust this > setting in FreeBSD MTU = Maximum Transmission Unit It's the largest link layer datagram that can be used for a particular network. If you try to send a IP datagram that is larger than the MTU it's going to be fragmented. Different types of networks have different MTU:s. Here are a few of them: FDDI 4352 Ethernet 1500 IEEE 802.3/802.2 1492 X.25 576 (Ah, there we have an ugly one) -- /Bengan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message