Hi, Lucy, I did that on both a fresh 10/08 install and a fully-patched 10/08 install. It did not succeed. And yes, I made sure that my syntax was correct with the semi-colon at the end. I'm using the neterion driver for now and it seems to be working well.
Thanks, -Brian ------------------------------------------ Brian Smith Sr. Systems Administrator UNIX & HPC Systems Group, IT University of South Florida 4202 E. Fowler Ave. ENB308 Office Phone: +1 813 974-1467 Organization URL: http://it.usf.edu -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 8:58 PM To: Smith, Brian Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [driver-discuss] xge driver and Jumbo Frame support Hi Brian, Set the below line to /kernel/drv/xge.conf will the work. You might have missed the ";" in your experiments. set default_mtu=9000; The configuration of xge has not been ported to Brussel yet. Thanks, Lucy Smith, Brian wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to the community so forgive me if I've not landed in the right place > for this question. I've been reading up on the xge driver for the Neterion > Xframe II 10Gb adapter and how to enable jumbo frames or, to be more > accurate, not really reading a whole lot due to a terrible lack of docs (the > man page is pretty sparse). IIRC, I was able to accomplish this in Solaris > 10 update 3 some time ago but abandoned it due to some other hosts I have > including the BCM5721 device which does not support large frames. Anyway, > long story short, there is no documentation on how to get the xge driver to > support jumbo frames. I created /kernel/drv/xge.conf and added > "default_mtu=9000;" as is par for many other drivers, I checked 'dladm' (I'm > on Sol10 10/08) to see if any of the new Brussels features made their way in > (and no dice... this, despite the fact that all the dladm man pages on > docs.sun.com already include those features... > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2240/dladm-1m?a =v > iew -- what gives?!??!?!), and I even pored over 'ndd' to see if there were > any tunables for MTU, SDU, anything. Is there something obvious I'm missing > here? > > Thanks a lot in advance for any help. > > -Brian > _______________________________________________ > driver-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss > _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
