Broadcom NIC supports jumbo frames?

[Jeffrey B. Layton]

Greg Lindahl wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:00:11PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
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>>   Just to be sure, if we are running jobs on this cluster, ALL of
>>the nodes have to have a MTU of 9000 (I found that wasn't set
>>correctly). Anything thing else I should check? (we're having
>>MPI jobs fail after we switched all of the nodes to jumbo
>>frames).
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>Try ping with an 8000 byte packet. If both sides don't agree on the
>MTU, you'll see 100% lossage.
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Slick. I never thought about one before. I'll try it tomorrow.

Thanks!

Jeff

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>greg
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