OpenSUSE 13.2 - wicked - MTU 1500

English Network/Internet
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Hi
according to
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904323

a bug causing MTU to be set by DHCP rather than .conf has been resolved and should be available in wicked 0.6.16
Does anybody know what kind of timeframe shold be expected ?

This may be a minor problem for most users but in my case ( a server acting as router among others ) the bug actually cases errors in internet apps on the LAN behind.

kind regards,
Jens

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A workaround in the meantime might be to set your server with a static address (hence not using DHCP).
Depending on how DHCP is setup,

  • If the DHCP lease is very long, you might configure your static address to be the same as the the address handed out by DHCP
  • If you understand how the IPv4 subnet mask works, you can determine whether the DHCP address range monopolizes the entire address space or not. If it doesn’t, then you can determine what IP addresses in the address space are unused and available, then set your server to one of those addresses (Would recommend coordinating with your ISP so they know what you are doing).

TSU

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I installed 0.6.17 from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/wicked:/master/openSUSE_13.2/. There are significant changes from 0.6.15.

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0.6.17 has been submitted to the maintenance project a week ago and is available in the 13.2 update-test repo as well:
http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-test/

It should be released as official update for 13.2 in the next days…

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The update solved my problem
Kind regards,
Jens