on Oct 11, 2016Article Content
| Article Number | 000034177 |
| Applies To | RSA Product Set: Netwitness Suite RSA Product/Service Type: Netwitness UI Server RSA Version/Condition: 10.x Platform: CentOS O/S Version: 6 Product Name: Netwitness for Logs and Packets |
| Issue | Some customers wants to change the MTU of their Netwitness appliances for the sake of increasing the network performance. |
| Resolution | There are two ways of changing the MTU on the appliances 1- To change it on fly (the change will take effect immediately but will revert back with network/appliance restart Please use: ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500 up Change the eth0 depending on the interface name and 1500 depending on the MTU needed value 2- To change it permanently, Please use vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Change the eth0 depending on the interface name Add the below the line at the end of the file MTU="1500" Change 1500 with the needed value Restart network service on the appliance. service network restart |
| Notes | This optimal value for the MTU should be provided by the customer's network team. |