Hi John
this looks like a limitation we have found with the i40e (is this the case?) 
splitting buffers into 2048-bytes, we are still working on this, please open an 
issue on github.

Thank you
Alfredo

> On 07 Jun 2016, at 22:41, John Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Observation:
> 
> Following example #2 in /example_zc/README.examples:
> The interface name is passed in as "zc:eth2" to start the Balancer.
> 
> example:
>  # ./zbalance_ipc -i zc:eth2 -c 99 -n 2 -m 0 -g 1
> 
> In this case the max_packet_len(devices[0]) function call, passed into 
> pfring_zc_create_cluster() always returns 2048; no matter what the actual MTU 
> value is as set by ifconfig on eth2. Although balance_ipc still works it is 
> limited to a 2048 Byte packet on the receive; where a 5000 Byte inbound 
> packet is received as three packets.
> 
> Removing 'zc:' from "zc:eth2" in the interface name allows 
> max_packet_len(devices[0]) to return the correct MTU value; as set by 
> ifconfig. In this case zbalance_ipc still works BUT with the correct MTU. Now 
> inbound Jumbo packets work; a 5000 byte inbound packet is received as a 
> single packet.
> 
> example:
> #./zbalance_ipc -i eth2 -c 99 -n 2 -m 0 -g 1
> 
> Explanation?
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