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From: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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Subject: NFS problems by jumbo frames to mention in bge man page
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>Number:         50773
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] NFS problems by jumbo frames to mention in bge(4) man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    jmg
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 10 02:40:02 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Oct 24 20:37:30 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Konrad Heuer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
GWDG
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD gwdu60.gwdg.de 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #4: Tue Apr 8 09:24:35 CEST 2003 kheuer@gwdu111.gwdg.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GWDU60 i386
>Description:
	The bge driver allows to use jumbo frames by setting an MTU value
	of e.g. 8192. This works well in most cases. If NFS client and
	server are both capable to use jumbo frames, perfect! But clients
	with different adapters and standard MTUs can't access files on
	an NFS server if the latter one uses jumbo frames. Thus possible
	NFS problems should be mentioned in the man page.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Try to setup client and server as explained above.
>Fix:
*** bge.4	Thu Apr 10 11:15:47 2003
--- bge.4.new	Thu Apr 10 11:18:32 2003
***************
*** 89,95 ****
  .Xr ifconfig 8
  utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
  Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
! such as file transfers and data streaming.
  .Pp
  The
  .Nm
--- 89,96 ----
  .Xr ifconfig 8
  utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
  Using jumbo frames can greatly improve performance for certain tasks,
! such as file transfers and data streaming, but may cause NFS problems
! if clients and servers use different MTU values.
  .Pp
  The
  .Nm
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->jmg 
Responsible-Changed-By: jmg 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 20 20:15:40 GMT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'm going to take over this..  information that is general to to all 
ethernet cards supporting jumbo frames should not be in a card specific 
man page.. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=50773 
>Unformatted:
