loopback: set default mtu to 64K at kernel-2.6.32-504.el6(RHEL6.6)

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Issue

  • loopback: set default mtu to 64K at kernel-2.6.32-504.el6(RHEL6.6)

Before kernel-2.6.32-504.el6:

# ip link show dev lo
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

kernel-2.6.32-504.el6 or later:

# ip link show dev lo
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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