Top "Mtu" questions

In computer networking, the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) of a communications protocol of a layer is the size (in bytes) of the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards.

How to find the largest UDP packet I can send without fragmenting?

I need to know what the largest UDP packet I can send to another computer is without fragmentation. This size …

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How to know the MTU size of Android Smartphone

Any command to know the MTU size of Android?

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How to change MTU setting permanently

I need to permanently change MTU to 1500. By permanently I mean if I reboot the system or will do service …

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MTU 1500: fragment packets after 1472 bytes

I have couple of VMs running on Openstack. I have one data network gateway assigned into the switch with MTU=1500, …

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Do MTU modifications impact both directions?

ifconfig 1.2.3.4 mtu 1492 This will set MTU to 1492 for incoming, outgoing packets or both? I think it is only for incoming

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How to calculate MSS

By default when we say about MSS for TCP ethernet packet 1460 and MTU is 1500. MSS = MTU - 20(IP header) - 20(…

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Can UDP packet be fragmented to several smaller ones

Can UDP packet be fragmented to several smaller ones if it exceeds MTU? It seems that MTU fragmentation is about …

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sendto() returns values greater than MTU on SOCK_DGRAM (UDP) socket

I'm currently writing a UDP client/server (on GNU/Linux). I'm using sendto() for sending messages on a SOCK_DGRAM …

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set MTU in C programmatically

A client requested that the MTU limit should be 1492. Is there a way to do it in the source code (…

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