Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-11-02 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:24:18PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > Er, how is it possible to send a UDP packet > 65535? Last time I looked > it was a 16-bit field. This is explained in section 4. of RFC 2675, "IPv6 Jumbograms", http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2675.txt -- Craig Rodrigues http:/

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-11-02 Thread Michal Mertl
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > I think at this point, you are going to have to look at the > sources; IMO, it's a problem in some code that calls the > ether_output() function directly with too large a packet, and > since NFS doesn't manually implement TCP, that's not it. > > Hmmm. Is

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-11-01 Thread Barney Wolff
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:09:07PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Barney Wolff wrote: > > > Implies the sending host is not honoring the MTU restriction when > > > deciding whether or not to frag packets. > > > > 67582 looks awfully bogus even as a pre-frag length. How could that come > > over the

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-11-01 Thread Terry Lambert
Barney Wolff wrote: > > Implies the sending host is not honoring the MTU restriction when > > deciding whether or not to frag packets. > > 67582 looks awfully bogus even as a pre-frag length. How could that come > over the wire? The sending host is not honoring the MTU restriction? 8-) 8-). Mo

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Michal Mertl wrote: ... > > As I recall, when I used a crossover cable, I could not get the > > adapters to go to 1000, only 100. That might have been the cable, > > or not. > > I can confirm it works equally well with crossover as with straight cable. Depends usually. S

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-31 Thread Barney Wolff
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 12:56:11AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Michal Mertl wrote: > > I then left one computer at 4.9 and upgraded the other to 5.0. When I > > mount a partition from 5.0 machine I found out, that copying reliably > > works only from 5.0 to 4.9. The other way around I see message

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-31 Thread Michal Mertl
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Barney Wolff wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:04:58AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > > > > I've ran many jumbogram tests of machines connected with a cross-over cable > > and em devices at each end. If you've got a swtch in the middle make sure it > > does the right thing. >

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-31 Thread Michal Mertl
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Michal Mertl writes: > | On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Sam Leffler wrote: > | > | > On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:46 am, Michal Mertl wrote: > | > > I wanted to test gigabit network performance and found out that current > | > > (from 5.0 to up to date -current)

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-31 Thread Terry Lambert
Michal Mertl wrote: > I then left one computer at 4.9 and upgraded the other to 5.0. When I > mount a partition from 5.0 machine I found out, that copying reliably > works only from 5.0 to 4.9. The other way around I see messages 'em0: > discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 67582 > ma

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Michal Mertl writes: | On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Sam Leffler wrote: | | > On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:46 am, Michal Mertl wrote: | > > I wanted to test gigabit network performance and found out that current | > > (from 5.0 to up to date -current) doesn't fully work with jumbograms (MTU | > > set to

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:48:32PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > As I recall, when I used a crossover cable, I could not get the > > adapters to go to 1000, only 100. That might have been the cable, > > or not. > > That's at least conceivable; I don't know enough about the wire > protocol to

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread Garrett Wollman
< said: > Just a minor note: GigE should not require a crossover cable. It's > supposed to work to connect two GigE adapters with a straight-thru > cable. I verified this with two Intel em NICs, quite a while ago. This should hardly be surprising, since 1000BASE-TX transmits and receives bidire

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread Barney Wolff
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:04:58AM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote: > > I've ran many jumbogram tests of machines connected with a cross-over cable > and em devices at each end. If you've got a swtch in the middle make sure it > does the right thing. Just a minor note: GigE should not require a cross

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread Michal Mertl
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Sam Leffler wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:46 am, Michal Mertl wrote: > > I wanted to test gigabit network performance and found out that current > > (from 5.0 to up to date -current) doesn't fully work with jumbograms (MTU > > set to 6000), Intel adapters and nfs (bo

Re: jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread Sam Leffler
On Thursday 30 October 2003 04:46 am, Michal Mertl wrote: > I wanted to test gigabit network performance and found out that current > (from 5.0 to up to date -current) doesn't fully work with jumbograms (MTU > set to 6000), Intel adapters and nfs (both UDP and TCP). > > I checked that the same thin

jumbograms (& em) & nfs a no go

2003-10-30 Thread Michal Mertl
I wanted to test gigabit network performance and found out that current (from 5.0 to up to date -current) doesn't fully work with jumbograms (MTU set to 6000), Intel adapters and nfs (both UDP and TCP). I checked that the same thing works with 4.9. I then left one computer at 4.9 and upgraded the