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Ping with jumbo frames fail but returns default ping fail message

I need to set up a local connection between my Windows 11 PC and an external device (IP 10.0.0.10), with jumbo frames enabled (MTU 9000). The end goal on my PC is to connect to the remote device from ...
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how to test 10G NIC in loopback for full throughput?

I am using 10G NIC x520-DA2 (which is x8 Lane) in windows 10 Enterprise 64 Bit on DELL Optiplex 7080 Tower with Intel Core i7-10700 . X520-DA is installed on PCie slot 2 of optiplex 7080 that is PCIe ...
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Testing whether jumbo frames are actually working

Is there a command to test whether jumbo frames are actually working? i.e. some sort of "ping" that reports whether or not the packet was broken up along the way. I've an ESXi host with an Ubuntu VM ...
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Setting the MTU of a virtual Switch on a qNAP NAS (QTSHero OS)

For a project that I am currently working for, I bought a QNAP NAS (TVS-h1288X). In that project, I have multiple network cameras. On the NAS, I have a Windows 10 VM which is supposed to store all the ...
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Requirements to achieve Jumbo Frame (mtu = 9000) with PXE Enabled networks

What I should be looking for when trying to enable Jumbo Frames in networks that relies on PXE for server booting? As far as I know I must have: Network switch capable of MTU >= 9000 The ability ...
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Link Aggregation And Jumbo Frames configured but not working

I have a netgear GS110TP smart POE switch which is connected to a dual port INTEL PRO/1000PT with static link aggregation configured on the switch and PC side. The network card and switch recognize ...
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Issue with Netgear GS108T Managed Switch and Jumbo Frames

I recently purchased a Netgear GS108T managed switch and I am trying to configure jumbo packets between my NAS (Thecus N4100Pro), PC and managed switch. I should mention the fact that I was able to ...
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MTU 9000 and 1500 when machines with MTU 1500 send data to machines with MTU 9000

we have some machines in the cluster linux machines as Linux_a , linux_b are configured with MTU 1500 while linux machines - linux_1 and linux_2 are configured with MTU 9000 so linux machines - ...
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Mixing jumbo frames and normal frames on one server?

I have a group of servers on 10Gb that I want to use jumbo frames on to hopefully speed up the backups. The backup server and switches can be changed. If I turn on jumbo frames, will all of the ...
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Network packet size on sql server connection string to improve throughput

We have a dataload job that moves a relatively large amount of data across the network between two sql servers. the servers are on the same subnet and there is only a switch between them. the data ...
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Trouble enabling Jumbo Frames?

I'm trying to enable jumbo frames. I have a linux client & a windows server. I've standardized across the board on intel nics. On the windows server the only choice for jumbo frames is 9014 & ...
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Is it possible to mix jumbo frames VLAN and standard mtu VLAN on the same switch port?

If a managed switch and all attached devices both support VLANs and Jumbo Frames, is it possible to mix VLANs with jumbo frames and VLANs with standard frames on the same switch port / ethernet card? ...
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Slower performance using Jumbo Frames on Dell PowerVault MD3200i

We have a Dell PowerVault MD3200i connected to a server via iSCSI using 2 Dell switches (PowerConnect 6224) at 1GB. The server has VMware ESXi 6.5 installed and it's connected to the PowerVault using ...
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can we mix MTU values in cluster

we have hadoop cluster ( all machines are linux redhat machines version 7.x ) on the VM machines we set MTU=8900 and all other machines we set MTU=9000 we set on VM MTU=8900 because we saw some ...
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Cisco 2960X and Jumbo frames on particular ports

I would like to setup several ports to be able handle jumbo frames. This will be only for my backup nas connected to ESXi host. I did create vlan 103 where I changed mtu size to 9000. Problem is when ...
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Jumbo frames (mtu 9000) on Debian 7.10 servers with BCM57800 NIC (bnx2x)

I'm working on 2 servers under Debian 7.10 with Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57800 1/10 Gigabit ethernet. I have done the following for both servers: ethtool -g eth0 Ring parameters for eth0:...
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What is the right way to temporarily disable/enable PMTU Discovery on a Linux box?

I've a few pcaps that contain packets larger than standard ethernet MTU size of 1500B. I searched about this and found refs pointing towards Jumbo Frames. I now understand that since I'm on a GBE ...
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Sending Ping at fixed packet size as jumbo frame is not working in linux

I have to hosts connected each other with ipv4 address each other. I modified the MTU of each one to 9000. Then I want to send a Ping request at fixed packet size +1500 to verify that can send and ...
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Is it correct to use the term "Jumbo" when referring to any packets > 1500 bytes, even those created in software by LRO

I can be a bit of a stickler for correct terminology at work. Recently we have been dealing with the effects of Large Receive Offload on our application. To quote wikipedia It works by ...
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RX errors when using jumbo packets

We have a device outputting high speed data over UDP connected directly to a processor (no switch). The processor is running CentOS 6.6. The connection is gigabit Ethernet. When we use packet sizes ...
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Broadcom BCM5709C Jumbo Frames on Windows 2008R2

I have a broadcom bcm5709c quad port nic (gigabit netxtreme II); I download the broadcom utility from there site, I can setup teaming and all, but I can't seem to find the setting to enable jumbo ...
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Cisco PIX 501 and jumbo frames

We currently have a cisco pix 501 running in our office building and we just got word that our network is going to updated to run jumbo frames. I haven't been able to find much information, but from ...
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Can't mount read-write iSCSI with MTU=9000

I'm attempting to connect my desktop (running debian 7) to a QNAP NAS (running QTS 4.1.1) using iSCSI with an MTU=9000. The network infrastructure consists of a cat5e crossover cable between the ...
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Any benefit and/or risk in enabling Jumbo Frames for the DAG replication network?

Exchange 2013 DAG, two nodes, a dedicated GBE network interface on each server for replication traffic, connected to a GBE switch, using a dedicated VLAN. Is there any benefit to Exchange replication ...
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Full MTU not utilized with jumbo frames enabled

I've been testing to see if I can get any benefit from enabling jumbo frames. I've set up two identical Dell R210 servers with Xeon quad core E3122 CPUs, 8G of RAM and Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 ...
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VMWare - Jumbo Frames over iSCSI to a NAS4Free array

I am having problems getting Jumbo Frames working over my iSCSI connection. Here is what I try. 4 1GbE connections on 4 different subnets on my NAS4Free array for iSCSI, MTU set at 9000 2 redunant ...
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Enabling Jumbo Frame on Cisco 2960G

I'm having issue with enabling jumbo frame on my Cisco 2960G. Here is what I tried, and what I got: Switch(config)#system mtu jumbo 9000 vb:: Read-only file system Changes to the system jumbo MTU ...
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TCP packets larger than 4 KB don't get a reply from Linux

I'm running Linux 3.2.51 in a virtual machine (192.168.33.15). I'm sending Ethernet frames to it. I'm writing custom software trying to emulate a TCP peer, the other peer is Linux running in the ...
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How to enable jumbo frame and large TCP on Windows Server 2008

I needed to enable the jumbo frame 9000 in network setting, and I have already done that. I still need to enable large TCP on Windows Server 2008, but how do I do that?
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Mixing jumbo frames on Vsphere 5 ISCSI network

We have a HP C7000 blade chassis with a HP Lefthand SAN solution. The ISCSI network is in its own VLAN and is using the standard MTU of 1500. We also have a backup exec 2012 server that has read ...
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Jumbo Frame configuration & VMware

I am hoping one of you can help clear up some of my confusion on this matter. We have 2 new catalyst 3750 switches to support our VM hosts and SAN arrays. The SAN arrays utilize jumbo frames with an ...
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VMWare converter performance

I have a question about my test lab. It's more to understand the concept more than apply this into production: I have an ESXi with few VMs linux/windows configured and I'd like to use VMWare ...
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Jumbo Frames, ISCSI and ESXi

I have enabled Jumbo Frames (9000) in ESXi for all my vmNICs, vmKernels, vSwitches, iSCSI Bindings etc - basically anywhere in ESXi where it has an MTU settings I have put 9000 in it. The ports on the ...
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Enabling jumbo frames on switch but not on devices: looking for trouble?

The switch at hand is a Dell PowerConnect 2716 which does support both VLANs and Jumbo Frames but, as far as I can understand from its manual, it only has a global Jumbo enable/disable setting and no ...
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Server 2012, Jumbo Frames - should I expect problems?

Ok, this sound might stupid - but is there any negative on just enabling jumbo frames in practice? From what I understand: Any switch or ethernet adapter that sees a jumbo frame it can not handle ...
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Missing Jumbo and MTU for Broadcom NIC?

I have two Broadcom BCM5708C NetXtreme II GigE NICs in my Dell Windows SBS 2008 server. I would like make one them them Jumbo Frames enabled so that I can add it to my SAN whose VLAN on the switch is ...
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iSCSI SAN - Network adapter bottleneck

My new database server (Windows Server 2008 R2) has a 4 Gbps connection to my Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN. I've been testing it by backing up multiple databases at the same time. There appears to be a ...
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Configure LeftHand iSCSI SAN for jumbo frames after clients are configured

This is similar to enabling jumbo frames on an iSCSI network after the fact but in our case we configured the switches and then went through all the hosts, enabling jumbo frames (we may have screwed ...
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Jumbo frames with wireless client

I currently have the following network configuration Apple Time Capsule (Gigabit Ethernet router) 2 Windows desktop wired with Gigabit ethernet 1 MacBook Pro in wireless N mode 1 iPhone (obviously ...
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VMWare ESXi 4.1 VMXNET Ignoring MTU and Sending Jumbo Frames

On my CentOS 5.6 ESXi 4.1 VMs using VMXNET, it looks like they are attempting to send jumbo frames: However, all the interfaces are set to MTU 1500. What is causing this behavior? Update: I would ...
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Enabling Jumbo Packet support on Hyper-V internal network NIC

I have a Hyper-V setup where guest OS'es accesses the host/parent OS via an Internal Network. I've noticed that "Microsoft Virtual Machine Bus Network Adapter" has support for Jumbo Packets and ...
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Cannot increase MTU on gigabit network

I have just set up my new gigabit network and when I was about to increase the MTU to use jumbo frames, I get this error: root@rayquang-desktop:~# ifconfig eth1 mtu 9000 SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid ...
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enabling jumbo frames on an iSCSI network after the fact

We're using iSCSI storage and have two dedicated VLANs for iSCSi. We didn't implement jumbo frames initially. I'd like to turn it on now. I understand I need to turn it on for the NICs that connect to ...
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Implementing jumbo frames on one interface and not the other

I have a distributed application that passes a whole lot of traffic among a number of machines. Currently, those machines share a gigabit network with the rest of the machines in the rack, and I'm ...
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Setup link aggregation and jumbo frames on VMware ESXi 4

I'm setting up an ESXi 4 server to connect to an NFS datastore. I'd like to bond two of the NICs together and use jumbo frames for the NFS connection on a private (non-management) network. I setup a ...
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Upgrading to Gigabit Network - Enabling Jumbo Frames

I would like to begin to upgrade my SOHO network to gigabit (from 10/100) and have heard a bit on Jumbo Frames. What would be the best way to implement Jumbo Frames on a network? From what I can tell ...
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Are there any statistics on the number of networks using Ethernet Jumbo frames?

I am often told by Sales Engineers and Product managers that a Layer 2 Ethernet service is not fit for purpose if the maximum supported frame size is in the 1518-1522 range (enough to support standard ...
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Are Jumbo Frames (MTU up to 9k) realistic/common over the open Internet?

I've got an application that would benefit from larger Ethernet frames. (In theory, we could reduce the number of outbound packets by > 50%, maybe even 66%.) I'm also in the process of specifying ...
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Should I disable Jumbo Packets on iSCSI network?

Let's say we have a SQL Server 2000 box that houses our main database engine. We added an iSCSI SAN and now that server has a one card connected to the regular network and one card connected to the ...