User Guide

Advanced Features Page 107
MTU Settings
A network administrator may set the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) allowed over a
packet or frame-based network such as TCP/IP. If the MTU size is too large, it may require
more transmissions if the packet encounters a router unable to handle a larger packet. If
the packet size is too small, this could result in more packet header overhead and more
acknowledgements that have to sent and processed.
The default value is 1500 octets based on the Ethernet standard MTU. The minimum value
that can be set is 68. Decreasing the packet size may improve the performance of the
network.
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