[Dnsmasq-discuss] using DHCP to set clients' MTU

[Steven Jan Springl]

On Thursday 11 September 2008 14:08, Adam Hardy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> searched the archives and the net and was surprised not to see any hits
> for MTU except its generic appearance in log statements.
>
> I had to change my MTU on my workstations to1430 to get SMTP and some
> websites to work (e.g. paypal).
>
> Can I tell dnsmasq to send the MTU setting with the DHCP information?
>
> My attempts to hack it into the config haven't worked.
>
>
> Thanks
> Adam

Adam

I use the following statement to set the mtu size to 1492 for clients 
connected to eth0:

	dhcp-option=eth0,26,1492

Steven.