4-16 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
The media types you can use depend on the type of Ethernet card. The possible
types you can enter in the ifconfig command are the same as those you can select
when running setup. They are described in Table 4-5.
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The following example shows setting the MTU for an Ethernet interface:
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Table 4-6 lists the default MTU sizes.
Use a smaller MTU value for an interface if a bridge or router on the attached network
cannot break large packets into fragments.
To view the current setting of the MTU value, use the following command:
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The following example illustrates how to configure interfaces up and down:
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