On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:19:00PM -0400, Brad wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 08:05:47PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > ?'?????? 09 ??????? 2006 19:57, Brad ???????: > > > There is a mistake on that web-page. None of Broadcom's PCI Express > > > chipsets support Jumbo frames. > > > > Indeed. Our bge(4) manual page says: > > > > The BCM570x also supports jumbo frames, which can be configured via the > > interface MTU setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with > > the > > ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit > > jumbo > > frames. Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain > > tasks, such as file transfers and data streaming. > > > > Mine is BCM5751 -- I guess, I'm out of luck... > > I made sure the OpenBSD man page is very clear as to what models do support > Jumbo > frames after having a few end-users ask similar questions. > > The BCM5700, BCM5701, BCM5703, BCM5704, BCM5714 and BCM5780 are capable > of supporting Jumbo frames, which can be configured via the interface MTU > setting. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) > utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo frames. Us- > ing Jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks, such > as file transfers and data streaming. > > I would suggest doing the same thing for the FreeBSD man page since there are > a > number of chipset revisions which do not support Jumbo's.
Thanks for the suggestion, I added this to our manpage. - Christian -- Christian Brueffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D
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