Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and super jumbo frames

2015-11-10 Thread Steven Tardy
> On Nov 9, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > > IP 10.79.4.53.64327 > 10.79.2.53.24294: Flags [.], seq 16060:29200, ack 1, > win 32767, length 13140 Do you have RSS enabled? With RSS the software/tcpdump sees larger "packets" but the physical NIC chunks down to the wire MTU. What does

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and super jumbo frames

2015-11-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/9/2015 9:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: The real issue relates to doing pcap on an interface that is hooked to a span port. The super jumbo frames cause rx_long_length_errors: 2701813 which show up in our monitoring software and the customer thinks there are error on his network. So I wanted

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and super jumbo frames

2015-11-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/09/2015 09:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: So I wanted to increase the mtu on the interface so these errors would not be reported. Well, ifconfig can be used to set the MTU. The maximum size may depend on the hardware and driver that you're using. ___

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and super jumbo frames

2015-11-09 Thread Steve Clark
On 11/09/2015 12:36 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 11/09/2015 08:34 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Has anyone using CentOS 6 been able to successfully set an mtu larger than 9710 on an interface. Maximum frame size varies from implementation to implementation: http://pages.uoregon.edu/joe/jumbo-clean-gea

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 and super jumbo frames

2015-11-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/09/2015 08:34 AM, Steve Clark wrote: Has anyone using CentOS 6 been able to successfully set an mtu larger than 9710 on an interface. Maximum frame size varies from implementation to implementation: http://pages.uoregon.edu/joe/jumbo-clean-gear.html It's also worth noting that that du