lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Jun]   [22]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: sungem - ifconfig eth0 mtu 1300 -> oops
From
Date
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 10:04, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Chris Friesen wrote:
> > Just a quick question. Does the sungem chip support jumbo frames? I'd
> > like to use MTU of 9000 to make large local transfers more efficient,
> > but it didn't seem to work last time I checked.
>
>
> Are you 100% certain you configured the other side to support jumbo?
>
> Jumbo frames are non-standard, and sometimes require configuring MTU on
> the switch or remote network card (if directly connected).

Well, it's not enabled in the driver I think, or at least it wasn't last
time I looked. Dave told me the chip fifo's are too small to do anything
useful with jumbo frames.

Ben.


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:04    [W:0.034 / U:0.116 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site