[OpenAFS] MTU size -- don't set using both -maxmtu and ifconfig, at least under Solaris 9

Carson Gaspar carson@taltos.org
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:57:28 -0700


Kim Kimball wrote:

> Cause:
> 
> fileserver -maxmtu 1260
> ifconfig bge0 mtu 1260
> 
> This may be immediately obvious to others, but it was the last place I 
> looked.
> 
> Once I reset the bge0 interface to mtu 1500 everything started working.
> 
> I can't say I understand the interaction, but thought mentioning it 
> might help someone somewhere sometime.

Does the fileserver flag include packet header overhead? If not, that 
would explain it.

-- 
Carson