Kernel 2.4.32 r8169 driver was missing change MTU. It is back-ported from the kernel 2.6.16 r8169 driver. Performance went from 40 megabyte/second (MTU 1500) to 58 megabyte/second (MTU 7200) when testing with custom http server and wget for client. Target and destination were both tmpfs volumes.
Feedback requested: Did I do it right? Does it work for you?
r8169-change-mtu-2.4.32.diff.gz
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