From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NfwtZ-0001Pr-5h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:53:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84669E09CD; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f185.google.com (mail-yx0-f185.google.com [209.85.210.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DE7E09CD for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe15 with SMTP id 15so1949332yxe.9 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:52:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=YvhKpAbyglpI4oBrESLjLhwKkoNhbRcX4HIOPMO4nDk=; b=AIS7jlP8SOOZcaAA1WwpPxFBC+XQN0Txas/kbQgie2j5AhzuuAOzn1ufx/BBEA2H0c TCEptTSXtA72ehn3D0r4u5h00Aoo3BZVQTpjdNmyl+mvFzIM2Pbk6MBl8MoGOEs8wp0e PIXXVzFwQNe5IGTfr0X/0wm6aElqxw0BskfO4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=U5+dVG9w4/rtVY1O3T79n/wyv3qWbweAkvFYIW/5kh2ko0+Q/7/JY5n08Jj/W9E7N8 jACBSRkQTF7iFGW5mLm4dZUbuI+tbH0Dc0qTX+IKjEcPsFVllbwvK6liSBnMoxmewBS6 j7Iiw61kJ9OHqiCppZ4C+BhcPiz64khzKNvlw= Received: by 10.101.34.8 with SMTP id m8mr1960494anj.211.1265986376547; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:52:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.200? (dcpl.ornl.gov [160.91.170.68]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm1387944ywd.57.2010.02.12.06.52.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:52:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B756B6C.5060906@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:53:32 -0500 From: Valmor de Almeida User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100131) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 95a1c4e3-be7e-4a71-89b5-60ad2e2296a3 X-Archives-Hash: b3947c6fb47062f03c2ef8b556bac348 Hello, I am getting a SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument [ok] message when re/starting eth0. I am wondering about that. The router's MTU is set at 1500. Looking at the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 it seems the inteface metrics should be calculated automatically. Any ideas about where to look for the reason for the message? Additional info below. Thanks, -- Valmor -> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart * Caching service dependencies ...[ ok ] * Unmounting network filesystems ...[ ok ] * Stopping eth0 * Bringing down eth0 * Stopping dhcpcd on eth0 ...[ ok ] * Shutting down eth0 ... [ ok ] * Starting eth0 * Bringing up eth0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... eth0: dhcpcd 4.0.15 starting eth0: waiting for carrier eth0: carrier acquired eth0: broadcasting for a lease eth0: offered 192.168.0.200 from 192.168.0.1 eth0: acknowledged 192.168.0.200 from 192.168.0.1 eth0: checking 192.168.0.200 is available on attached networks dnseth0: leased 192.168.0.200 for 259200 seconds SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument [ ok ] * eth0 received address 192.168.0.200/24 * Mounting network filesystems ...[ ok ] -> cat /proc/net/route Iface Destination Gateway Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT eth0 0000A8C0 00000000 0001 0 0 0 00FFFFFF 0 0 0 lo 0000007F 00000000 0001 0 0 0 000000FF 0 0 0 eth0 00000000 0100A8C0 0003 0 0 0 00000000 0 0 0