[ofa-general] Setting MTU on ib0.?????

Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin devel at morey-chaisemartin.com
Tue Mar 31 04:08:39 PDT 2009


My bad, I don't know what I did wrong earlier but setting connected mode automatically switch the MTU to 65520.
So there's nothing to do ;)

Nicolas

Nicolas Morey Chaisemartin a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I saw in openibd script that through creating a /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-ib?.???? you can create an interface with the right pkey automatically.
> The interface is also automatically switch to connected mode if IPOIB_CM is selected in the openibd.conf file.
> However, by default (at least from what I've seen on my system), the MTU of a newly created pkey specific ipoib interface is set to 2048 (due to the fact it is in datagram mode).
> Switching it to connected allows to get a much higher MTU but doesn't change it.
> Is there a way to set a default MTU for those interfaces?
> It should'nt be too hard to add something in the associated ifcfg script but I'll only to do it if it is not done somewhere else.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Nicolas
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