Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module

ben soo wrote:
i'm experiencing this problem myself. i have 2 servers, one using X86_64 kernel version 2.6.23-rc5 on a 100Mbit network and one with i386 kernel version 2.6.23-rc6 on a 1Gbit network.

They both have this issue with the sky2 network device driver whereby the device would stop working and need to be brought down and back up.

On the X86_64 kernel on a 100Mbit network, this is a very occasional thing, while on the i386 kernel on a 1Gbit network the device only works for a few minutes at a time. If i set the MTU to 7200 then the device seems to stay functional, but then i see long delays when it's talking to 100Mbit devices with standard 1500 MTU that are outside of its LAN segment.

This last might be an artifact caused by the firewall, i dunno.

Yes, I have found that I get far less problem in this area leaving the MTU at 1500, then putting a larger MTU (usually 9000) into the routing table for segments, or even just machines, where I know there is direct connectivity. I use 9000 MTU with my directly connected file server, 1500 elsewhere. I can go to 9000 for nbd servers as well, assuming the connection doesn't pass a firewall.

I have some hints that while the switches I use will speak 10/100/1000 between machines with different speeds, and will handle jumbo packets between machines at the same speed, if I'm going Gbit/jumbo to 1500/slower performance seems to suffer more than talking smaller packets. That may be because window size needs to be even larger or something.

I have some legacy machines talking 10Mbit/half on 10base2 cable, I may be seeing more of this than the average site. That's legacy as in "attached to something expensive to replace."

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