On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:08 AM, David Magda <dma...@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2014, at 01:11, Thomas Glanzmann <tho...@glanzmann.de> wrote: > >> enable jumbo frames in your network. The GRE tunnel and VXLAN add >> overhead. If you're switches chop the packet other 1500 Bytes you see >> exactly this effect: > > Yes, I'm aware of jumbo frames. Our network gear already has them enabled > everywhere AFAIK. > > I was just curious to know if after breaking PMTUD, if the Open vSwitch > developers had an Official Recommendation™ as to whether frame size settings > should be on VMs / instances or on the hosting systems to make the network > work again. Or if the general OvS Community had come to a consensus between > the two.
From an OVS perspective, it doesn't make a difference which of the two you choose. It's mostly a question of which is easier in your environment - updating VMs or updating the physical network. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
