Re: Jumbo Frames

2007-07-28 Thread Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
Thank you very much. I used "ping -f do -l 9000 IP" to determine whether my path is clear. Seems to be fine. Is it good enough to make sure PATH is clear for larger MTUs. After enabling jumbo frames, i could see SEND queue is growing compared to receiver's queue. I used "

Re: Jumbo Frames

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Ellis
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Set your MTU to 9000 on all equipment in the network path that needs >to use jumbo frames. That locked things up quite nicely here. So be forewarned. -- http://www.spinics.net/lists/ http://www.spinic

Re: Jumbo Frames

2007-07-25 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 25/07/07, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, What is the best way to enable Jumbo in Linux? Set your MTU to 9000 on all equipment in the network path that needs to use jumbo frames. That means all network interface cards, all switches, routers etc n

Re: Jumbo Frames

2007-07-25 Thread prasad hegde
Set the mtu for all links in your path and send packets of required size. This should be enough for udp. For tcp if you want to play with window /buffer sizes then you need to set some /proc entries. On 7/25/07, Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, What is the be

Jumbo Frames

2007-07-25 Thread Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi
Dear All, What is the best way to enable Jumbo in Linux? Other than setting MTU value from ifconfig, is it necessary to set anything in "/proc" Any proc parameter, netbacklog or txqueue length etc Thankx Tharindu -- Tharindu Rukshan Bamunuarachchi i want to believe it; unless otherwise