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From: Brett Curtis <dashnu.mutt@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-server] Re: Can someone confirm? tg3 MTU issues.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 15:30:23
Message-Id: af9c37ce0702060727m5e9ca902l67eba34a72322a30@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Can someone confirm? tg3 MTU issues. by Brett Curtis
1 Sorry to double post but I should have included this info.
2
3 mtu == 1500 for the following
4
5 ping -s 5000 172.17.187.220
6
7 tcpdump run on 172.17.187.220
8
9 tcpdump -n -i eth0 host 172.17.187.221
10
11 10:17:53.618060 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
12 10:17:53.618062 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
13 10:17:53.618065 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
14 10:17:53.618095 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp 1480: echo reply
15 seq 4
16 10:17:53.618099 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
17 10:17:53.618100 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
18
19 now I lower the mtu
20
21 ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492
22 ping -s 5000 172.17.187.220
23
24 tcpdump run on 172.17.187.220
25
26 tcpdump -n -i eth0 host 172.17.187.221
27
28 10:20:03.185397 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
29 10:20:03.185400 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
30 10:20:03.185402 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
31 10:20:03.185433 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp 1480: echo reply
32 seq 4
33 10:20:03.185436 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
34 10:20:03.185438 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
35 10:20:03.185440 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
36
37 So as you can see they are the same however the reply never comes back as
38 proved by this tcpdump.
39
40 tcpdump run on 172.17.187.221
41 tcpdump -n -i eth0 host 172.17.187.22
42
43 10:24:51.105366 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
44 10:24:51.105369 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
45 10:24:51.105371 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
46 10:24:51.105652 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
47 10:24:52.105450 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: ICMP echo request, id
48 42519, seq 3, length 1472
49 10:24:52.105455 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
50 10:24:52.105456 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
51 10:24:52.105458 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: icmp
52 10:24:52.105669 IP 172.17.187.220 > 172.17.187.221: icmp
53 10:24:53.105545 IP 172.17.187.221 > 172.17.187.220: ICMP echo request, id
54 42519, seq 4, length 1472
55
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57
58 On 2/6/07, Brett Curtis <dashnu.mutt@×××××.com> wrote:
59 >
60 > have tried everything possible short of testing a different network card
61 > because I do not have one. I have delt with IMB support but since I run
62 > gentoo they are not much if any help at all. I compiled the drivers they
63 > provide with the same results. I tried booting from gentoo live disk.. I
64 > am
65 > running out of ideas. I have tried doing this on different network
66 > switches
67 > differnt cables... and still nothing.
68 >
69 > I can not lower the mtu on *any* on my Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
70 > nics.
71 > I
72 > have 5 of these boxes! Same results on all.
73 >
74 > my test is this:
75 >
76 > ping -s 5000 somehost.inmy.lan
77 >
78 > works as expected.
79 >
80 > ifconfig eth0 mtu 1492
81 > ping -s 5000 somehost.inmy.lan
82 >
83 > nothing.. and of course I set my mtu back to 1500 everything works fine.
84 >
85 > I have done this same test with machines with different nics and
86 > everything
87 > works.
88 >
89 > I am building 2.6.20 now in hopes it may fix something.
90 >
91 > Any ideas?
92 >
93 > Thanks
94 >
95 > --
96 >
97 > Created with VIM & mutt.
98 >
99 > Our comedies are not to be laughed at. -Samuel Goldwyn
100 >
101 >