[OmniOS-discuss] Configuring Jumbo frames

[Dan McDonald]

> On Sep 21, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote:

> No.  The line you quoted defines the settings for 16 instances
> of the bnx driver.  To set jumbo frames for instances #2 and #3 only.
> you would need remove the comment sign and change it to
> 
> mtu=1500,1500,9000,9000,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500,1500;
> 
>>      in bnx.conf and can I control the mtu on the particular
>> interface with ifconfig and hostname.bnx files??
> 
> Forget those.  This is OmniOS and the 21st century. :-)
> 
> Use dladm, as in:
> 
>  dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 <link>
> 
> where <link> is the name of your datalink, e.g. "bnx2" (if you have
> not renamed it to be something else).


It's not clear the stock bnx driver is in the 21st Century, however.  Glad you have the if-dladm-fails workaround, however.

Thanks Volker!
Dan