re: How do I get the MTU setting for the host?
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 11:48 am
Posted by tushar
(1 messages posted)
to determine your servers MTU, at the command prompt type:
ping -f -l [packetsize] [server]
packetsize = 1 to 1500
the largest value that does not give u the error "Packet needs to be fragmented,
but DF set" will be the server's MTU-28(IP=20 bytes & ICMP=8 bytes)
MTU = MSS + TCP & IP Headers
On Monday, August 12, 2002 at 2:25 pm, Johnny Kwan wrote:
>I am a general user on a corporate network. I am attempting to connect to websites
>that give me incomplete files. I finally figured out that the problem is the MTU
>size.
>
>However, whenever I set the MTU size on my client, after I reboot, the MTU size
that
>works decreases by 28 bytes, the size of a packet header. It goes down another
notch
>each time I set it to a lower value.
>
>I did some reading on this site and found someone who figured out that if the MTU
>of the host is less than the MTU of the client, the client MTU will decrease until
>the client matches the server. This person merely reset the MTU on the server and
>set the client MTU to match.
>
>However, I am not a network admin and have no such rights. How can I find out the
>MTU setting of the server I am connected to?
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