How do I change the MTU for only localhost connections on a Red Hat box?

Question

I want to change the MTU value for only the connections that are going between localhost / 127.0.0.1 on a Red Hat box. How do I do that?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '11 at 19:40

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Use ifconfig

# ifconfig lo mtu 16436

You can make the change more permanent by adding to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo:

MTU=16436

answered Jun 10 '11 at 19:40

dmourati

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