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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Looking for tool in Linux to do change MTU size (or create

From: Andrej van der Zee <andrejvanderzee@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 06:00:05 +0100

I connected linux desktop having two Ethernet interface as router between two host. I wanted to reduce the MTU size so that packet that are exchanged between the two nodes become fragmented. Is there any tool that does configures the MTU size dynamically with restarting the network interface?

sudo ifconfig <iface> mtu <val>
 
Greets,
Andrej