"Maximum Transmission Unit" (MTU) is the maximum number of bytes a frame or packet may have on a network (in several layers of the OSI model). Wrong MTU can lead to packet loss.
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windows update error 80072ee2 caused by linux router, possible mtu issue?
For a few days now, the Windows 7 workstations on my network have been unable to connect to Windows Update. They are getting the infamous error 80072ee2. They are connected to a simple SOHO switch. The switch is connected to a Debian Wheezy box…
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centos 5.6, virtual on Vsphere
suddenly my virtual centos server (5.6 on VMWare-VSphere) is not working...
It started with the url not responding, nor the ip. (NO HTTP response, no ping).
When I entered on the server via ssh to start troubleshooting I noticed that most of…
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Why would MTU be a size of 96?
So after discovering I can increase internet speed by tweaking the MTU, it appears I have a MTU of only 96 bytes.
Any idea why that is?
ping -c 3 -M do -s 68 google.com
PING google.com (172.217.169.46) 68(96) bytes of data.
76 bytes from…
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Setting the MTU of a virtual Switch on a qNAP NAS (QTSHero OS)
For a project that I am currently working for, I bought a QNAP NAS (TVS-h1288X). In that project, I have multiple network cameras. On the NAS, I have a Windows 10 VM which is supposed to store all the video recorded by those cameras. The traffic…
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How to maximize mtu size for SunOS 5.10 Generic_147440-26 sun4v sparc sun4v
Despite installing and enabling the 10G fiber card, data copy or transfer is still happening on a 1G rate.
