Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Feustel wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:44:35AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > Dave Feustel wrote:
> >
> > > How do I configure my IG nic to use jumbo frames?
> > > Neither ifconfig nor ip work for me.
> >
> > Does your NIC support jumbo frames?
> >
> > The usual way to configure it seems to be "ifconfig ethX mtu 9000".
> >
> >
> > /Per
>
> This command worked on Fedora 9, but not on suse.
> f9: MSI K9N NEO motherboard with 1G nic
> SUSE MSI K9N NEO V3 motherboard with 1G nic

The error I get (when jumbos aren't supported by the NIC) is 
"SIOCSIFMTU invalid argument".  Any chance you have different version of
drivers on Fedora/openSUSE?

> That command also failed on OpenBSD which seems to
> want 'mtu=X' instead of 'mtu X'. 1G Nic is Netgear 311.

And it does actually run with jumbo frames - did you test it? 


/Per


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Per Jessen, Zürich (15.6°C)

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