Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Dave Feustel <dfeustel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:38:34PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 03:24:29PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> > > Dave Feustel wrote:
> > >
> > > > F9 and Suse are running on different versions of MSI K9N
> > > > motherboards (v1,v3) with builtin 1G nics. The v3 motherboard has a
> > > > dual processor.
> > > >
> > > > The Netgear card is plugged into a 10-year-old Dell.
> > >
> > > I suspect what you have is this:
> > >
> > > 1) MSI K9N v1 - NICs support jumbo frames
> > > 2) MSI K9N v3 - NICs do not support jumbo frames
> >
> > The v3 motherboard has a Realtek RTL8111b nic chip.
> > I found the data sheet (RTL8111B_8168B_Registers_DataSheet_1.0.pdf)
> > and the Jumbo frame support goes to 7552 bytes. Why Suse doesn't
> > support the Jumbo setting is a mystery.
>
> According to the kernel source, the latest driver version supports
> only "baby" jumbo frames, size <= 7200.  (assuming the driver is
> r8169).

That worked! Thanks!
 
> > > 3) Netgear - does not support jumbo frames
> >
> > Netgear GA311 supports jumbo frames to 7500.
> > http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/222
> >
> > Netgear strongly advises setting jumbo frames on all adapters to the
> > same value.
>
> Yeah :-)
>
>
> /Per
>
>
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> Per Jessen, Zürich (13.4°C)
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