Hi Robert, A few years ago, you helped me with this very same problem :). Basically, when the card is initialized, the MTU is set and cannot be reset. That meant that you had to create some type of workaround due to the order in which services were started on SmartOS. I wish I could find the e-mail you sent me, but I don’t seem to have it anymore. I set a parameter in a file on the USB key, and you looked at that parameter to set the MTU when you initialized the card.
Apparently that process doesn’t work anymore. When I upgraded my SmartOS distribution a few months ago, a bunch of the services didn’t come up. When I checked into it, I found out that the Myricom card wasn’t coming up because of the 9000 parameter. I eliminated the MTU parameter, letting it default back to 1500, and the system booted up just fine. When I get back home, I can retry the 9000 value to see what the exact error message is. The stupid thing that I did, though, was to not make a note of where that parameter was set. I thought that I had it in my notes, so when I removed it, I didn’t bother writing anything down about what file I removed it from or what the parameter name was. Now I’m not sure what I need to enable to get the error back again. I don’t suppose that you might still have a copy of that e-mail you sent me back in 2014 with the workaround that you integrated into the release, do you? Regards, John > On Aug 7, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/6/17 17:25 , John Croix wrote: >> A few months ago I ran into a problem booting SmartOS with my Myricom card >> set up for jumbo frames (MTU of 9000). It was working for a long time but >> stopped. I was wondering if anybody has a solution to the problem. My >> short-term fix was to set the MTU to 1500 and move on, but I then forgot to >> follow up with a bug report :). I’ve sense gotten back to it because my >> transmission rate on 10Gb optical is only about 3.4Gb with a 1500 MTU. > > Can you provide more details about what specifically wasn't working? > Unfortunately, there isn't enough information here for us to be able to > suggest what to do next. > > Thanks, > Robert > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
