Up the MTU using ifconfig(1) to match the other boxes if you can.
I believe mismatched MTUs affects UDP packet assembly.
Daniel Browne wrote:
> We're in the midst of some network upgrades and are having some difficulties
> transitioning to using ethernet Jumbo frames. Several of our older machines
> (PowerMac G5's) do not have hardware support for Jumbo frames. The switch
> they are connected to allows me to configure frame mtu size on a per-port
> basis, but this is not preventing packet drops enough to allow Rush to work
> properly. Jobs are taking inordinately long (which may be due to NFS packet
> loss caused by jumbo frames) and I cannot push updated hosts list files
> to these machines.
>
> If anyone can suggest a solution I'm open to it, though we overall are having
> enough issues that we may need to abandon Jumbo frames altogether until
> such time as the older equipment is decommissioned.
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Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
Seriss Corporation
Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
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