[Beowulf] Problems with a JS21 - Ah, the networking...

[Chris Samuel]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Ivan Paganini wrote:

> I sniffed the network in the store nodes interface, and i got lots
> of TCP lost fragment, previos lost fragments, ack lost fragments
> and TCP window size full.

Some suggestions would be to check that all network interfaces are 
negotiating gigabit back to the switch, and that if you are using 
jumbo frames then all interfaces are indeed using jumbo frames.

A useful check to verify 2 way jumbo frames connectivity is by using 
the ping command, doing:

ping -c 1 -M do -s 8900 $hostname

should tell you whether or not it is working.

Best of luck!
Chris
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