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Date:      Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:24:26 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NIC and Jumbo Frames
Message-ID:  <17429.61722.300670.335938@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <4415EC00.6010106@calarts.edu>
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Sean Murphy writes:

>  What do I need to add to the rc.conf config line so that it sets up the 
>  mtu for jumbo 16128 bytes size and sets the speed from auto to 1000?  I 
>  have this so far...
>  
>  ifconfig_em0="inet x.x.x.x  netmask x.x.x.x 1000baseTX"

	You can't: 16114 is the maximum frame size.  As for the rest,
try: 

	ifconfig_em0="inet x.x.x.x  netmask x.x.x.x media 1000baseTX mtu 16114"


					Robert Huff




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