From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "L F" Subject: Re: e1000 driver and samba Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:07:29 -0400 Message-ID: <780b6f780709152107j7ae44c4fg7c27420664ff0157@mail.gmail.com> References: <780b6f780709131904j41148fb4p827e87530b15d6e9@mail.gmail.com> <46EAC25B.2060404@intel.com> <780b6f780709141140l1fd586c9p2aa8efe6ed803d38@mail.gmail.com> <46EAF644.1040006@intel.com> <46EC1A00.2000304@katalix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "James Chapman" Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.176]:1678 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750878AbXIPEHa (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:07:30 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1533147wah for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:07:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46EC1A00.2000304@katalix.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 9/15/07, James Chapman wrote: > Are these long frames expected in your network? What is the MTU of the > transmitting clients? Perhaps this might explain why reads work (because > data is coming from the Linux box so the packets have smaller MTU) while > writes cause delays or packet loss because the clients are sending long > frames which are getting fragmented? I doublechecked in any case. All machines on the network have the default XP MTU of 1500. So does the linux machine. I therefore foresee no problem there. > James Chapman LF