Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-19 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:59:52PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff wrote: The kernel version is 2.6.24-19. But the kernels aoe driver did not work at all so I installed the newest release from coraid. One of my collegues managed to build the v62 AoE driver for this kernel and now jumbo frames seem

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-15 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 04:58:52PM -0700, kelsey hudson wrote: This is an artifact of how the Xen networking works in the version of Xen with CentOS 5. The affected machines run Mandriva. Consider the following situation: A dom0 machine exists with two ethernet adapters, one (eth0) for

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-11 Thread Philip Kirchhoff
Gabor Gombas schrieb: Hi! On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:15:50PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff wrote: I built an AoE Server on an FPGA and a have problem with the Linux driver. Although my NIC supports jumboframes and I have inreased the mtu value, the driver does not send or request more than 2

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-11 Thread Philip Kirchhoff
Ed Cashin schrieb: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:15:50PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff wrote: Hello, I built an AoE Server on an FPGA and a have problem with the Linux driver. Although my NIC supports jumboframes and I have inreased the mtu value, the driver does not send or request more than 2

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-11 Thread Ed Cashin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff wrote: ... Do you mean the Buffer Count value? But this value doesn't tell anything about the packet size, does it? Its the number of messages the server can queue. No, the Buffer Count and Sector Count are two different fields in

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-11 Thread Philip Kirchhoff
Ed Cashin schrieb: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff wrote: ... Do you mean the Buffer Count value? But this value doesn't tell anything about the packet size, does it? Its the number of messages the server can queue. No, the Buffer Count and Sector Count are two

Re: [Aoetools-discuss] Problem with self built AoE Server

2008-09-11 Thread Philip Kirchhoff
Tracy R Reed schrieb: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 05:49:21PM +0200, Philip Kirchhoff spake thusly: Yes, thats what FPGA means. :-) So why an FPGA? Are you trying to make a small or cheap dedicated appliance? Or is it somehow for performance? Is this a proprietary product for some company that