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godfreydanials
Apr 11, 2012Aspirant
[18373207] Duo Slow NFS Reads, Jumbo Frames and TCP window
My ReadyNAS Duo: RAIDiator 4.1.8 Two 2 TB Seagates, RAID 1 (Mirrored) The Duo shares movies to my xbmc server (ubuntu 11.10) via two nfs mounts. I am troubleshooting a problem with intermittant ve...
StephenB
Apr 22, 2012Guru - Experienced User
One small mistake in a nice analysis. Ethernet and WiFi are standardized by the IEEE, not the IETF. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.3). The IETF doesn't standardize physical-layer, they work at layer 3 and above.
godfreydanials wrote: The first problem with Jumbo Frames is that they are not defined in any IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) standards document.
You are 100% correct in saying that Jumbo Frames are non standard, and more importantly that the ReadyNAS should not be sending packets of this size even if Jumbo Frames were turned on.
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