On Wednesday, 08/20/2008 at 09:54 EDT, "Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After a lot of effort we found that there was an extra route in the
> Linux routing table that sent the data bound for one of the z/OS LPARS
> over to our z/VM where it then was routed by the TCP/IP stack on z/VM to
> the z/OS LPAR over the HiperSockets LINK. This LINK happened to have a
> MTU size of 1500. When we removed the bogus route from the Linux routing
> table causing the SQL queries in question to travel over a HiperSockets
> LINK with a MTU size of 16348 they were successful. It appears that the
> difference in the MTU sizes was the problem.
> 
> My question is does the MTU size mismatch cause the problem? I thought
> that even if the packets were fragmented they would still get over in
> full.

Yes, it can (but not always) cause a problem if the MTU sizes on the same 
shared media are different.  All MTUs on the same network segment need to 
have the same MTU.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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