Hi Kerry. My particular Linksys card uses the tulip driver. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kerry Hoath <kerry@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:51 PM Subject: Re: mtu > What sort of network card are you talking about? > And mtu stands for Maximum transmition unit so it referrs to the bigest packet > the kernel will *send*. > mru is maximum receive u nit but that is a ppp parameter not an ethernet one. > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:00:01PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > Actually, now that I think about it, ifconfig doesn't mention receive mtu. Up to now, I have been talking about receive mtu. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Kerry Hoath <kerry at gotss.net> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:16 PM > > Subject: Re: mtu > > > > > > > What sort of card is it and what sort of transferrs > > > are you trying to increase t he speed of? > > > Remember ssh requires cpu for encryptian and > > > samba has other options you set to increase speed. > > > > > > Regards, Kerry. > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 02:26:25PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > > Hi Johan. Did you raise the mtu? Because this is what I'm trying to do to try and improve transfer rates. The mtu used to increase the performance of my card when I used to use winblows. I already notice a speed difference under Linux, I just want to try and max it out that's all. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: Johan Bergstr?m <johbe at linux.se> > > > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:34 AM > > > > Subject: Re: mtu > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Igor Gueths wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. Has anyone successfully changed their mtu value on their network > > > > > >interface? I am unable to do this via /etc/network/interfaces. I put mtu > > > > > >1000 after the line where it says iface eth0 inet dhcp. I restarted inetd > > > > > >and init, and the value hasn't changed. Does anyone know how to go about > > > > > >doing this? Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Why would you want to change your mtu? The standards say mtu 1500 for > > > > > ethernet. Anyway, I did do some tests a couple of years ago, and changing > > > > > mtu values on a network card almost never give better results than the > > > > > standard ones. It might happen in extreme cases but not one that I found > > > > > out about. > > > > > > > > > > Johbe > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > "I'm gonna go build my own theme park... with blackjack and hookers! In > > > > > fact, forget the park!" -Bender > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > > > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
