Re: pxeboot with jumbo frame network

2012-07-24 Thread Robert Blayzor
On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Bob Healey wrote: I know I have this working, however I don't remember what I did. I know I can pxeboot and install RHEL on a 9K frame network from a FreeBSD tftp server/NAT gateway. I do know the first thing in my RHEL install script is to set the MTU to 9K.

Re: pxeboot with jumbo frame network

2012-07-24 Thread Mike Andrews
On 7/24/12 6:07 AM, Robert Blayzor wrote: On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Bob Healey wrote: I know I have this working, however I don't remember what I did. I know I can pxeboot and install RHEL on a 9K frame network from a FreeBSD tftp server/NAT gateway. I do know the first thing in my RHEL

pxeboot with jumbo frame network

2012-07-23 Thread Robert Blayzor
Is it possible to PXEboot a diskless client with an MTU higher than 1500 (Ie: 9k) ? The network we currently boot several diskless machines from has a lot of NFS traffic and we'd like to enable them all for larger MTU's however the one thing stopping us is the issue with initial boot seemingly

Re: pxeboot with jumbo frame network

2012-07-23 Thread Bob Healey
I know I have this working, however I don't remember what I did. I know I can pxeboot and install RHEL on a 9K frame network from a FreeBSD tftp server/NAT gateway. I do know the first thing in my RHEL install script is to set the MTU to 9K. If I have a chance later today, I'll dig into one