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"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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VLANs with mixed MTUs trunked over a LAG

I'm contemplating enabling Jumbo frames for a specific network/VLAN (a dedicated storage network). Ports are spread across two switches, linked together using a LAG, which is configured to carry all relevant VLANs (trunking). I presume the…
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Linux host does not retransmit with a lower packet size in response to ICMPv6 Packet Too Big message

I'm seeing this in Wireshark when curling this URL: On the same network, a Windows host retransmits properly, but an Android host does not. On a different network (presumably appropriately configured), the same Android host works. What could be the…
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Linux MTU and UDP

Can someone please explain this behavior to me? I have a few VMS (centos) running on a cloud provider. The interface is set to the standard 1500 MTU. pinging with large ICMP packets works fine: # ping -s 1600 10.132.6.3 PING 10.132.6.3…
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Weird network interaction between Vista and Ubuntu

I have a network where my WAN (a CableModem) goes into a (dubiously configured) Ubuntu box which acts as the router for the whole company. We recently switched our ISP, and we're getting a very weird behavior. In Vista/Server 2008 machines, some…
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Does TCP's MSS hide a mismatched intra-LAN MTU?

I'm trying to understand how mismatched MTUs behave in a network. Suppose two hosts are able to talk to each other through an Ethernet-based network. The network and host A are configured for jumbo frames up to but not including a switch on the LAN…
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Linux route cache seems to load outdated settings

On SLES 11 SP3 (Kernel 3.0.101-0.46) I see the following route behavior: When I set a route specific MTU once via ip route change ... mtu lock 1500, everything works as expected (setting an MTU of 1500 on a dev configured with MTU 9000). I then…
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Can't mount read-write iSCSI with MTU=9000

I'm attempting to connect my desktop (running debian 7) to a QNAP NAS (running QTS 4.1.1) using iSCSI with an MTU=9000. The network infrastructure consists of a cat5e crossover cable between the desktop and the nas. If I set the MTU on local machine…
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CentOS 7 MTU setting not works

I am using CentOS 7 to test some network performance. The interface setting is normal like that : saberin@localhost ~]$ ifconfig enp0s25: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 10.40.196.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 …
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Debian don't forward through L2TPv3 more than mtu l2tp virtual interface

R3--R1--Internet--R90 R3: ip addr 10.123.0.3 R1: sudo ip l2tp add tunnel tunnel_id 699 peer_tunnel_id 699 encap udp local 5.254.174.8 remote 5.254.174.90 udp_sport 699 udp_dport 699 sudo ip l2tp add session tunnel_id 699 session_id 699…
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CentOS ssh connection stalls after server bandwidth upgrade

I have a few linux servers inside a customer that recently MASSIVELY increased his bandwidth - from about 0.8/5mbps to 25mpbs/100mbps... (yes 100mpbs!) this is very good, but ever since my WinSCP/Putty connections go stalled if I leave them for a…
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Cisco IPSEC VPN Slow Speeds

We have a site to site IPSEC VPN, both endpoints are Cisco PIX 515e's. The links at both end are 100mb, however speeds over the VPN (logged using jperf) are at most 4mb. Obviously this represents a HUGE gulf in the speeds we feel we should be…
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How do I force a specific MTU for only certain TCP ports?

Background I have a set of embedded hardware deployed in the field. These remote machines connect back to my servers at AWS running Ubuntu and I use the iptables mangle chain to lower the MTU to 500 so these devices are happy. For reference, this…
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What is the right way to temporarily disable/enable PMTU Discovery on a Linux box?

I've a few pcaps that contain packets larger than standard ethernet MTU size of 1500B. I searched about this and found refs pointing towards Jumbo Frames. I now understand that since I'm on a GBE network that supports sending Jumbo frames (upto 9k),…
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Linux - set an interface to not fragment packets

I am using a Linux as a router. The machine has two NICs. This router will be used for experiments, so I have set one of it's interfaces to have a MTU that is lower than the standard (let's decide the MTU has been set to 200, for the sake of…
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Setting MTU Per Destination Host

I'd like to change the MTU per host as I have a mixed infrastructure where not all devices support the same MTU. I'm on OS X 10.7 and like to set some MTU per destination host and a default one.
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