Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Friday 04 February 2005 19:22, Richard A Nelson wrote:
>
> What will this code do at the (increasingly common) misconfigured
> sites - many places (hotels, airports, etc) return a MTU of 64...
> to which the DHCP3 client faithfully attempts to set, only to
> receive:
> 	SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

Well, the ip auto configuration is mainly intended for diskless 
setups, not something, one will use in an uncontrolled environment.
I doubt, it will behave different, as well as usual distribution 
kernels will never enable this by default..

Pete

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