Re: Mtu and ip mtu

From: James (james@towardex.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 07:35:47 GMT-3

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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:00:48PM +0530, Rohan Grover wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a little confused between the commands 'mtu' and 'ip mtu'.
>
> According to the Doc CD, changing 'mtu' automatically changes the 'ip mtu', but the reverse is not true.
>
> So what exactly is 'ip mtu' used for??

mtu changes at the interface level, which covers all traffic.

ip mtu only covers IP traffic.

HTH,
-J

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> Thanks
> Rohan
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