Tag: mtu

Effect of MRU setting on EX Switch

MRU (Maximum Receive Unit) has a close relation to MTU but as far as I can see it has different effects in various active devices. For example setting an MTU value of 1000 on an Ethernet interface of a Linux machine or an SRX box doesn’t prevent the larger packet from being accepted. However if
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MTU and PMTU on JunOS

I would like to talk about couple of things in this post about MTU on JunOS; Why do we have two different MTU settings i.e at interface and logical level? What is the meaning of path mtu discovery on a junos box How MTU is important for OSPF? Actually all started with my OSPF tests
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