What's the trick to making mtu size changes permanent? I have tried adding a line to my /etc/network/interfaces: but that didn't do it.

My understanding is that that should work if I use static configs... I think the dhcp is screwing it up. I googled around but didn't find anything that worked.

Thanks in advance, all!

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See the chunk from my post install fixups in your original thread on this...

@tjc: I tried to make sense of that and then started googling. I found this:

http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/290

Which looks pretty simplistic.



I'm assuming "mymachine" in my hostname but when I follow it's suggestion and add those lines, I don't get the result at all.

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Reading the man pages for the ifup command and the interfaces file is quite helpful.

Try editing your /etc/network/interfaces file and adding an MTU line to the iface eth0 options. Something like this should do it...

If the "mtu" option doesn't fly with dhcp, I'd probably try to do the ifconfig using up rather than pre-up.

Yeah, I think using it w/ dhcp isn't gonna work. I took your suggestion and went static:

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I believe that everything after the iface line needs to be indented with a tab (0x09).

I always use tabs in config files, thanks for the suggestion. It's working in static mode and I really don't care to figure out dhcp when static works just fine... it's not like the internal IP is going to change anyway.

...can you tell me why transfer speeds from my windows box to my mythtv box are about 1/2 the speed of transfers in the opposite order

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