What's your time worth? -- Jim
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:03, Stefan Baur <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 24.03.2014 14:18, schrieb Chris Bagnall: >> However, the new tenant found that performance was erratic - certain >> websites loaded instantly, but others wouldn't load at all. This >> normally screams classic MTU problems, in my experience, but I normally >> see these on weird WAN connections, not on the LAN. >> >> Does anyone know if there are/were 'problems' with 1.2 and VLAN MTUs on >> ALIX platforms (ethernet driver 'vr'), and whether an update to 1.3 >> might fix it? This is old hardware with only 128MB RAM, so jumping to >> 2.x is optimistic. >> >> The site in question is a couple of hundred miles away from me, so 'try >> it and see' isn't really an option in this case. :-) > > While I do have to admint that I don't have experience with the > particular ethernet driver you mention, I know that there are several > Unix Operating Systems where not all ethernet drivers are capable of > dealing with the added bytes that a VLAN tag brings with it. > > IIRC, VLAN needs four bytes, so instead of upgrading to 1.3 you could > first try to set the MTU to 1496 instead of the usual 1500. > > -Stefan > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
