Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-30 Thread Matthias Bethke
On Tuesday, 2007-04-24 at 15:38:12, I wrote: I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing. Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo? Just to follow up for the archives' sake: this seems to be an old and frustrating problem, I've run into a few messages dating back to

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-30 Thread kashani
Matthias Bethke wrote: On Tuesday, 2007-04-24 at 15:38:12, I wrote: I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing. Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo? Just to follow up for the archives' sake: this seems to be an old and frustrating problem, I've run into a few

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi kashani, on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 11:11:40, you wrote: It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me. Yes, that's it. Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo frames. Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though you can certainly set them to an MTU of 9000

[gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-23 Thread Matthias Bethke
I've been fiddling with this for some days and can't but assume it's a bug in one of the Gentoo patches to either the kernel or NFS tools: Basically, NFS locking breaks as soon as I enable jumbo frames on both server and client. touch foobar flock foobar ls works fine in my NFS-mounted home

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 April 2007, Matthias Bethke wrote: I've been fiddling with this for some days and can't but assume it's a bug in one of the Gentoo patches to either the kernel or NFS tools: Basically, NFS locking breaks as soon as I enable jumbo frames on both server and client. touch foobar flock

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-23 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Thiem said the following on 2007-04-23 17:53: Just curious: What kind of network (layer 2) is this that allows an MTU of 9000? Uwe It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (MingW32)

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-23 Thread kashani
Tony Stohne wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Thiem said the following on 2007-04-23 17:53: Just curious: What kind of network (layer 2) is this that allows an MTU of 9000? Uwe It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me. Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

2007-04-23 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kashani said the following on 2007-04-23 20:11: Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo frames. Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though you can certainly set them to an MTU of 9000 and watch things