Why I am not able to set MTU for Jumbo frames on the ethX interface ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • While setting MTU getting following error.
# ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000
SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9

  • kernel 2.6.18-274

  • Drivers tg3

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