[Gllug] MTU discovery (was Re: Pidgin)

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Fri Jul 25 07:12:45 UTC 2008


On Thu 24 Jul, Alistair Mann wrote:
> 

> 
> On linux, you can work out the Maximum Transmission Unit between you and 
> a website with:
> 
>     ping -s 1472 -M do -c 1 www.pidgin.im
> 

   Also enter "ifconfig" to see the configuration for all ethernet
interfaces, see "man ifconfig".



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