On 07/14/2013 11:43 PM, Jagdish Motwani wrote: > On 07/13/2013 09:17 PM, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 07/13/2013 01:29 AM, jagdish.motw...@elitecore.com wrote: >>> Yes John, >>> When i do the ping request, i can see the 2 ip fragments. Its the >>> ping reply that is dropped by my igb interface. >> >> Is the replay also 2 packets? If not, the peer machine may have wrong MTU. >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> > You are right Ben. Peer machine has MTU=1500 greater than my MTU=1000. > > So the reply is a single packet (which is bigger than my MTU). > > My problem is : By setting an MTU of 1000, my igb device drops all received > packet having length more than 1000
That is how must NICs work...MTU basically == maximum receive unit as well. > However e1000e allows me to receive such packets. Someone will probably fix that one day. Why do you expect mis-matched MTU networks to work? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
