Ahhh yeah it'll be the newer kernel series that has the larger mtu... my 2.2.x
boxes are all 3924 bytes, but I just checked several slackware 8 installs
with 2.4 kernels, and they're all 16436 bytes.

> > Did you fiddle yours ? As you can see, my lo adapter has a much smaller
> > MTU.. from a default slackware 7.1 install. I also note that your one
> > has a lot more activity than mine :)
>
> Nope... ~16KB seems to be the default. Checked two other RHL boxes, plus
> two FreeBSD 4.x systems which have the same. BSDi 4.1 uses 4,352 bytes
> though.

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