How to I enable jumbo frames on just one network interface?
The question is phrased like there's a way to globally turn it on. I'm not aware of that method, here's how I'd turn it on:
sudo ip link set eth1 mtu 9000
Or (as this is a server) if you're using the /etc/network/interfaces
configuration, you can simply stick it in at the end like so:
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address ...
netmask ...
network ...
broadcast ...
gateway ...
dns-nameservers ...
mtu 9000
I suggest you test the MTU rate with ip
before you persist it in /etc/network/interfaces
. Oh and you'll need to run sudo service networking restart
if you only used the second method there.
You can verify the configuration with ip
:
ip link show eth1
And there are various things like traceroute --mtu
that can measure and test that MTU.