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mtu

By dreamreal |March 29, 2026 | 151 lookups
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mtu is the Maximum Transmission Unit - the largest packet size a network layer will transmit without fragmentation. For Ethernet, this is typically 1500 bytes; exceeding it splits the payload across multiple packets.
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