Re: Route MTU

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:50:56 +0000, Nix wrote:

On 21 Jan 2007, Simon Dean stated:

Nix wrote:
route(8) is obsolete, like most things in the mostly-unmaintained
net-tools package, and can access almost none of the Linux kernel's
routing facilities, even though those features have been mostly
unchanged since kernel 2.2. If you want to use a non-obsolete program
to do the same thing, `ip route add' includes an `mtu' option.

Thought so, but through the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-xxx
scripts, there's nothing I can find that will allow for an MTU setting.
Suppose I could hack the scripts?

That's generally my first port of call, not my last :)

I suspect Simon feels the same way as I do, that as
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network is owned by the initscripts package, hacking it
should be a last resort as otherwise it requires manual re-merging of
changes if a new initscripts package comes along (e.g. via yum or
up2date). Besides, there are /usually/ better ways to do things than
hacking around with the init scripts. This situation may well be an
exception, though...

Best Regards,
Alex.
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