Gigabit Ethernet w/Jumbo Frames

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:33:46PM -0700, george+freebsd at m5p.com wrote:
 > I'm having poor luck trying to use NFS over a gigabit ethernet using
 > jumbo frames.  By all indications, my switch (Netgear GS608) forwards
 > jumbo frames with no difficulty, but my Realtek 8169-based cards seem
 > unreceptive to the idea, giving many watchdog timeouts and other
 > obscure log messages.  One server is amd64 and my clients are i386,
 > but I think I've ruled that out as the problem because I see errors
 > evern with an i386 server.  So I strongly suspect my network cards at
 > the moment.  What gigabit ethernet cards do you use for reliable
 > performance with jumbo frames?                -- George Mitchell
 > 

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-May/072845.html

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon