On ons, 2007-10-03 at 14:04 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Ian Kumlien wrote: > > On tis, 2007-10-02 at 18:02 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> Remove unneeded check that caused problems with jumbo frame sizes. > >> The check was recently added and is wrong. > >> When using jumbo frames the sky2 driver does fragmentation, so > >> rx_data_size is less than mtu. > > > > Confirmed working. > > > > Now running with 9k mtu with no errors, =) > > Have you verified that you are actually getting jumbo packets out of the > NIC? I had one machine which did standard packets silently using sky2 > and jumbo using sk98lin. I was looking for something else with tcpdump > and got one of those WTF moments when I saw all the tiny packets. 20:27:06.542461 IP pi.local > blue.local: ICMP echo request, id 27173, seq 42, length 8008 20:27:06.543136 IP blue.local > pi.local: ICMP echo reply, id 27173, seq 42, length 8008 That should solve it for us, right? =) -- Ian Kumlien <pomac () vapor ! com> -- http://pomac.netswarm.net
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