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

2007-04-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Francesco, on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 21:58:18, you wrote: Based on my experience I would add to verify also the upper MTU value really supported. According to Documentation/networking/e1000.txt, the adapters should all support 16K frames. The limiting factor would be the switch's 9K limit,

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

2007-04-23 Thread ames
kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: 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 support jumbo frames. Additionally not all cards support jumbo

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

2007-04-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 April 2007, ames wrote: kashani kashani-list at badapple.net writes: 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 support jumbo frames.

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

2007-04-23 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 23 April 2007, kashani wrote: 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

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

2007-04-23 Thread Fabio Correa
You can also fiddle with the rsize, wsize NFS mount parameters. -- Fabio A. Correa D. Physics Dept, Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Colombia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] My webpage and OpenPGP key at http://facorread.150m.com My alexandria.cc address is not