Bug 445131

Summary:	mtu boot argument ignored
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alexandre Oliva <oliva>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9
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Description Alexandre Oliva 2008-05-04 10:38:59 UTC

Description of problem:
For some reason, as of recently, I had to set a lower-than-1500 mtu on one of my
notebooks for reliable network operation.  This has been easy to do with config
files, but it proved to be challenging to get Fedora 9-Preview installed on this
notebook with kickstart, for the mtu argument appears to be ignored for install
time.  As a result, the machine ends up unable to access the nfs-mounted install
media: the TCP connections used to implement NFS break unless I force the TCP
MSS to a lower value on the server, emulating to some extent the effects of
setting the MTU on the installing client.  I could verify during installation
that the dhcp-configured ethernet interface had MTU set to the default value,
rather than to the one I'd specified.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9-Preview

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot up with e.g. mtu=500
2.Check that the setting made to the interface

Actual results:
It doesn't

Expected results:
It should

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:37:29 UTC

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Andy Lindeberg 2008-06-03 14:26:01 UTC

Is this still a problem in the final release of F9?

Comment 3 Alexandre Oliva 2008-06-03 22:38:58 UTC

'fraid so.

Comment 4 David Cantrell 2008-08-02 02:00:26 UTC

This should be working in recent rawhide trees.