Will MTU increase affect all parties?
Will a Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) increase for the ethernet interface on one device, box-a pictured below, in a LAN network also increase the MTU between each of the clients and box-a?
Put another way, is this setting least- or most-common-denominator? How can I prove the setting took effect other than looking at an updated value output with ifconfig eth1?
I hope to be able to build a test network and validate, but it will take some some to acquire hardware.
On box-a:
ip a list eth1
ip link set mtu 1400 dev eth1
ip a list eth1
linux networking ethernet mtu
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Will a Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) increase for the ethernet interface on one device, box-a pictured below, in a LAN network also increase the MTU between each of the clients and box-a?
Put another way, is this setting least- or most-common-denominator? How can I prove the setting took effect other than looking at an updated value output with ifconfig eth1?
I hope to be able to build a test network and validate, but it will take some some to acquire hardware.
On box-a:
ip a list eth1
ip link set mtu 1400 dev eth1
ip a list eth1
linux networking ethernet mtu
asked Dec 2 at 0:17
tarabyte
4971129
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Will a Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) increase for the ethernet interface on one device, box-a pictured below, in a LAN network also increase the MTU between each of the clients and box-a?
Put another way, is this setting least- or most-common-denominator? How can I prove the setting took effect other than looking at an updated value output with ifconfig eth1?
I hope to be able to build a test network and validate, but it will take some some to acquire hardware.
On box-a:
ip a list eth1
ip link set mtu 1400 dev eth1
ip a list eth1
linux networking ethernet mtu
asked Dec 2 at 0:17
tarabyte
4971129
Will a Maximum Transfer Unit (MTU) increase for the ethernet interface on one device, box-a pictured below, in a LAN network also increase the MTU between each of the clients and box-a?
Put another way, is this setting least- or most-common-denominator? How can I prove the setting took effect other than looking at an updated value output with ifconfig eth1?
I hope to be able to build a test network and validate, but it will take some some to acquire hardware.
On box-a:
ip a list eth1
ip link set mtu 1400 dev eth1
ip a list eth1
linux networking ethernet mtu
linux networking ethernet mtu
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No, it will not automatically increase MTU of the other devices, they should just communicate with the smaller MTU. But it can lead to problems, with devices which cant handle it.
I am as example had problems with DHCP over APs on a network, where the DHCP Server was the one with the increased MTU.
answered Dec 2 at 1:02
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No, it will not automatically increase MTU of the other devices, they should just communicate with the smaller MTU. But it can lead to problems, with devices which cant handle it.
I am as example had problems with DHCP over APs on a network, where the DHCP Server was the one with the increased MTU.
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No, it will not automatically increase MTU of the other devices, they should just communicate with the smaller MTU. But it can lead to problems, with devices which cant handle it.
I am as example had problems with DHCP over APs on a network, where the DHCP Server was the one with the increased MTU.
answered Dec 2 at 1:02
Thomas
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No, it will not automatically increase MTU of the other devices, they should just communicate with the smaller MTU. But it can lead to problems, with devices which cant handle it.
I am as example had problems with DHCP over APs on a network, where the DHCP Server was the one with the increased MTU.
answered Dec 2 at 1:02
Thomas
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No, it will not automatically increase MTU of the other devices, they should just communicate with the smaller MTU. But it can lead to problems, with devices which cant handle it.
I am as example had problems with DHCP over APs on a network, where the DHCP Server was the one with the increased MTU.
answered Dec 2 at 1:02
Thomas
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