Thnx for your reply, I'm experimenting in a soho environment with very limited network activity from/to lan. Indeed in the doubt I was leaving the setting in rc.local for now.
Can you give us more insight about the trouble? -- Daniele Bonini Nov 7, 2023 19:41:18 Theo de Raadt <dera...@openbsd.org>: > Daniele B. <my2...@has.im> wrote: > >> Actually i'm not sure about the real benefits of it, and for a soho >> environment like mine but after 17 years I decided to take jumbo >> frame seriously.. and MTU values of my network equipment to 9018. >> I watched with happiness also to my old Mac having jumbo frame hard >> coded with MTU 9018 like second choise in the hardware settings. >> >> About OpenBSD (7.3 stable) the only thing I need to ask explanation >> for is the reason of the error "wrong MTU value" popping up by setting >> jumbo frame directly via hostame.mynicdevice; when the setting go >> smoothly up via ifconfig manually or by rc.local. Is the nic device >> initialization dependent on a sane 1500 MTU value, maybe? > > You have no idea what problems you are creating for yourself.
