Is the MTU-Setting on a "Ethernet-Standard" interface ignored ?
Investigation our problems with SFTP connections we found out, that all is working fine using a MTU size of 1492, but our external connection via Arcor SDSL supports a MTU of 1500. This leads to a problem, beause somewhere on the way to our clients SFTP server such big packets will not be transfered. Usually the routers should handle this using ICMP, but they doesn't.
So I'd tried to change the MTU size on our "External" connection from 1500 to 1492 and restarted Astaro - no change. To check if the setting is used I changed the MTU size to 1400 Bytes. Even after the next restart I was able to transmit packets up to 1472 bytes (max 1464 to the SFTP-Server) without fragmentation - no change.
Is it possible to change the MTU size on the "External" connection without using PPPoE ?
Thomas
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