Setting the MTU for an automatically configured "eth" network interface?

[Gilles Gravier]

I would like to make this permanent... i.e. in some configuration file 
so that every time I get a network connection on the eth0 interface, it 
is with MTU set to 1492...

Gilles.

Sven Richter wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 11:37:38 Gilles Gravier wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> So my Feisty 7.04 machine gets its network address directly and
>> automatically via DHCP... using the default network configuration wizard.
>>
>> Problem is that I want to set the MTU to something different than 1500.
>> I didn't find an option in the wizard to change the MTU for eth0. Where
>> can I do that?
>>
>>     
> A short google search gave me:
> sudo ifconfig en0 mtu 1200 
> where en0 is your network interface.
>
> Didnt try it, but i think this is what your looking
> for.
>
>
> Greetings
> Sven Richter
>
>   

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