- Original Message -
From: "kamal kc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "freebsd"
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:18 PM
Subject: increasing the ethernet MTU greater than 1500 (1502)
i don't want to fragment the packet as i think
that is too much overhead for 2 bytes. rather i
want to increase
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:35:00PM -0800, kamal kc wrote:
>
> thanks for providing the insight. I would try
> with GigE next time.
>
> since it seems a bad option to try MTU larger than
> 1500 in 10/100 Mbps ethernet i tried another option to
> solve my problem.
Also try any number of other $5
--- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:02:07AM -0800, John-Mark
> Gurney wrote:
> > Nope, for pre-gige, only 1500 MTU is supported...
> This was extended
> > slightly to support vlan tagging, but I believe
> many of the drivers to
> > If you have a good
On 1/6/06, Andrew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:23:33PM -0800, David Leimbach wrote:
> > To whom it may concern.
> >
> > I've been using qemu with the vde port [until recently, the qemu port is too
> > far ahead of the vde one now] on an x86 machine with FreeBSD 6
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 03:23:33PM -0800, David Leimbach wrote:
> To whom it may concern.
>
> I've been using qemu with the vde port [until recently, the qemu port is too
> far ahead of the vde one now] on an x86 machine with FreeBSD 6 and using
> if_bridge to connect the tap0 interface with xl0 w
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:02:07AM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Nope, for pre-gige, only 1500 MTU is supported... This was extended
> slightly to support vlan tagging, but I believe many of the drivers to
> magic behind the scenes to know when the vlan tagged packets are comming,
> and let the
To whom it may concern.
I've been using qemu with the vde port [until recently, the qemu port is too
far ahead of the vde one now] on an x86 machine with FreeBSD 6 and using
if_bridge to connect the tap0 interface with xl0 with great success.
I tried to duplicate this configuration on a dual opte
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:18:17 +0100
Karel Miklav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dennis and Marcin,
> thanks very much for your replies.
You're welcome.
>I've also found the 'LVS on
> FreeBSD' page at
> http://dragon.linux-vs.org/~dragonfly/htm/lvs_freebsd.htm.
I played with it on Linux before. Ho
kamal kc wrote this message on Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 23:18 -0800:
> i tried
> -->ifconfig xl1 mtu 1502
>
> but it gave the message:
> -->ifconfig: ioctl (set mtu): invalid argument
>
> How can i increase the MTU ???
> Will it have any effect whatsoever ???
> i guess ethernet should support MTU o
