Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-20 Thread Robert Blayzor via freebsd-stable
If your lag interface is up, what’s not working? Does something like this work? ping -D -s 8972 and then this not? ping -D -s 8972 If your firewall is on the LAN side supporting jumbo frames ok, but not WAN side, then the router will have to fragment all of the packets. (unless DF bit i

Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-20 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:59:20PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > > On Sep 19, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > > This is because RTT of this link for jumbo frames higher 1500 bytes > > frame for store-and-forward switch chain. > > For TCP, RTT isn't really a factor (in th

Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Sep 19, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > This is because RTT of this link for jumbo frames higher 1500 bytes > frame for store-and-forward switch chain. For TCP, RTT isn't really a factor (in this scenario), as the windowing and congestion avoidance algorithms will adapt to

Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-19 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 02:28:56PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Everything on physical Ethernet has support for it Including the LAN > > interface of Firewall, and talks to it just fine over a single interface > > with > > Jumbo frames enabled. > > Well, before you get too carried away,

Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Everything on physical Ethernet has support for it Including the LAN interface of Firewall, and talks to it just fine over a single interface with Jumbo frames enabled. Well, before you get too carried away, try this: 1) Run a ttcp test between a pair of local hosts using the exiting jumbofra

Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-19 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On 2016-09-19 3:28 pm, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: This is almost certainly a PMTUd issue. Unless your end-to-end paths to everything you talk to have jumboframes configured, there's no benefit to setting them up on the lagg. Just go with the default MTU. --lyndon Everything on physical Ethernet

Re: LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-19 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
This is almost certainly a PMTUd issue. Unless your end-to-end paths to everything you talk to have jumboframes configured, there's no benefit to setting them up on the lagg. Just go with the default MTU. --lyndon ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org ma

LAGG and Jumbo Frames

2016-09-19 Thread Dean E. Weimer
May not be specific to 11.0-RC3, but since that's what I was running when trying to set this up I am posting to stable mailing list first. I was trying to setup an LACP 3 port aggregate connection and having all kinds of problems, At first I thought it was an issue with NAT reflection and my f