Jumbo frames on PE 1950
Matt Lawrence
matt.lawrence at tamu.edu
Sat Sep 20 15:32:43 CDT 2008
Tom Pierce wrote:
> Matt,
> You need to have your ethernet network support 9000 MTU. Most are not
> configured for it.
> You have to configure the switch/router(s) to pass on 9000 mtu packets.
The switch is configured to handle a MTU of 9000
> ifconfig eth0 will tell you if your machine ethernet card is capable
> of setting a mtu of 9000. Usually when you set it it wither works or
> it tells you that the driver does not support 9000 byte packets.
That works just fine. Also, the "card" is actually the onboard NICs in
the 1950.
Any idea about what I should try next?
-- Matt
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