On 28 Feb 2011, at 14:31, Dan Pritts wrote:
On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
fileserver -L -udpsize 131071 -sendsize 131071 -rxpck 700 -p 128 -
b 600 -nojumbo -cb 1500000
I was curious about jumbogram support so i went to read the man page.
The man page suggests that if your router does not support
fragmenting of packets, jumbo won't work for clients without jumbo
support. Does this mean there is no path mtu discovery support in
the fileserver? not that that is without issues, of course.
1.6 has path discovery for some operating systems. Derrick can say
more about how complete it is, but I think there are issues for some
of our cache managers.
However, path MTU discovery doesn't actually buy you that much. It can
only tell you the maximum packet size that can be passed unfragmented
between the RX endpoints. jumbograms deliberately exceeds the MTU of
the path, typically by 4 times, in order to get better performance
(fragmented packets are actually more efficient in our RX
implementation than having to process more single packets). Path
discovery doesn't tell you anything about whether these packets will
be successfully passed, or dropped on the floor.
S.
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