How to clamp the MTU on an ethernet interface

[James McDonald]

James McDonald wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have been having some weird issues since I went from a bridging dsl 
> modem where the ppp0 was terminated on my linux box to a stand alone 
> adsl modem.
>
> Google maps is failing to download image tiles and my work outlook web 
> access site is also failing to download properly.
>
> I want to clamp the MTU on my ethernet interface to 1452 bytes. This 
> is a standard option when running pppoeconf to set up a connection. 
> But how does one make the change when it's a simple ethernet interface?
>

ifconfig eth0 mtu 1452

I have simply gone back to the way it was... I think my Belkin router is 
a Piece or Guano.