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

From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 13:09:07 -0800
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-).

Most likely, a direct call to ether_output, or a code path that
results in fragmentation not being implemented; see my other post:
it could be that he's using NFS over UDP, and that's doing it.

-- Terry
Received on Sat Nov 01 2003 - 12:16:01 UTC

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