Re: RFC: MTU for serving NFS on Infiniband

[Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> I do want to thank you, however, for reminding me of TCP.  It's something 
> 20/20 hindsight says I should have checked out before starting this thread. 
> Logistically, it'll be a few days before I can do so though.  If that allows 
> me to increase the MTU all the way up to 65520, then this UDP thing will 
> likely remain unresolved.

Just to close off on this.  It's been a few weeks now, but moving to NFS 
over TCP allows me to increase the MTU all the way up to 65520 without 
issues.

Thanks for the help.

Marc.

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