Re: System MTU question

From: Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 10:59:38 +0000

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 03:06, Christopher Copley <copley.chris_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not 100% for certain, but I know routers and switches are totally
> different in the architecture. The switches are more hardware based in
> ASIC's, where routers depend more on IOS software. B From this there is no
> global setting on a router for MTU, but rather it is a per interface
> setting....Experts, please correct me if I am wrong here.

You are, generally, not wrong. However, these things tend to be
somewhat platform-dependent. Some interfaces do not support settable
MTU, some do, different values are supported, etc.

In general, your answer is correct.

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