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Ever had problems with your MTU being set to 576 on eth0 because of you ISP or other reasons. You can fix that.
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you can check your mtu settings with the terminal command: ifconfig eth#
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Ever had problems with your MTU being set to 576 on eth0 because of your ISP or other reasons. You can fix that.
where eth# is the nic you are trying to affect in my case this was eth0
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Realtime you can open a terminal and use: sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu ####  
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You can check your MTU settings with the terminal command:  
The #### is the number of the mtu you want to use in my case 1500, so the realtime command would be: sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500
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  ifconfig eth#
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where eth# is the NIC you are trying to affect; in my case this was eth0
  
Ofcourse if you reboot or the network gets restarted it will change to 576 again, so to make it permanent we have to edit some files, in particular the /etc/network/interfaces file.
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Realtime you can open a terminal and use:
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  sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu ####
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The #### is the number of the MTU you want to use; in my case 1500, so the realtime command would be: sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500
  
This looks like this for a normal core on linuxmce:
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Of course, if you reboot or the network gets restarted it will change to 576 again, so to make it permanent we have to edit some files, in particular the /etc/network/interfaces file.
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/etc/network/interfaces looks like this for a normal core on LinuxMCE:
  
 
   auto lo
 
   auto lo
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         netmask 255.255.255.0
 
         netmask 255.255.255.0
  
So eth0 is getting it's ip from your isp through dhcp and therefor also the mtu setting
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So eth0 is getting its IP from your ISP through DHCP and therefore also the MTU setting; eth1 is getting a static IP that's provided.
Eth1 is getting a static ip that's provided.
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Now the changes you want to make to make sure the mtu is 1500 for everything are the following....
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Now the changes you want to make to ensure the MTU is 1500 for everything are the following....
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For the DHCP eth0, you need to add a line telling the NIC to set the MTU at 1500 which looks like this:-
  
For the dhcp eth0 you need to add a line telling the nic to set the mtu at 1500 which looks like this
 
 
   post-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500
 
   post-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500
  
For the static eth1 it's easier and you can add a line telling the mtu to be 1500 (or whatever you like, you can experiment with your internal network for better package handling, i've heard up to 9000, but this is up to you)
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For the static eth1, it's easier to add a line telling the MTU to be 1500 (or whatever you like, you can experiment with your internal network for better package handling. I've heard up to 9000, but this is up to you)
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   mtu 1500
 
   mtu 1500
  
Your interfaces file should look something like this now:
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Your interfaces file should now look something like this:-
  
 
   auto lo
 
   auto lo
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         mtu 1500
 
         mtu 1500
  
after a networking restart:
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After a networking restart:
 
   /etc/init.d/networking restart
 
   /etc/init.d/networking restart
look at your ifconfig again and it should have the correct mtu settings
 
  
Hope this helps, please add aditional information if needed/wanted.
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look at your ifconfig again and it should have the correct MTU settings.
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Hope this helps. Please add additional information if needed/wanted.

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Usage Information

Ever had problems with your MTU being set to 576 on eth0 because of your ISP or other reasons. You can fix that.

You can check your MTU settings with the terminal command:

 ifconfig eth#

where eth# is the NIC you are trying to affect; in my case this was eth0

Realtime you can open a terminal and use:

 sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu #### 

The #### is the number of the MTU you want to use; in my case 1500, so the realtime command would be: sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500

Of course, if you reboot or the network gets restarted it will change to 576 again, so to make it permanent we have to edit some files, in particular the /etc/network/interfaces file.

/etc/network/interfaces looks like this for a normal core on LinuxMCE:

 auto lo
       iface lo inet loopback
 auto eth0
 iface eth0 inet dhcp
 auto eth1
 iface eth1 inet static
       address 192.168.80.1
       netmask 255.255.255.0

So eth0 is getting its IP from your ISP through DHCP and therefore also the MTU setting; eth1 is getting a static IP that's provided.

Now the changes you want to make to ensure the MTU is 1500 for everything are the following....

For the DHCP eth0, you need to add a line telling the NIC to set the MTU at 1500 which looks like this:-

 post-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500

For the static eth1, it's easier to add a line telling the MTU to be 1500 (or whatever you like, you can experiment with your internal network for better package handling. I've heard up to 9000, but this is up to you)

 mtu 1500

Your interfaces file should now look something like this:-

 auto lo
       iface lo inet loopback
 auto eth0
 iface eth0 inet dhcp
   post-up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE mtu 1500
 auto eth1
 iface eth1 inet static
       address 192.168.80.1
       netmask 255.255.255.0
       mtu 1500

After a networking restart:

 /etc/init.d/networking restart

look at your ifconfig again and it should have the correct MTU settings.

Hope this helps. Please add additional information if needed/wanted.