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From: "Arkadi Shishlov" <arkadi@mebius.lv>
> Whats about performance and stability with MTU > 1500? I tried increasing
> MTU on my Intel-made servers to speed-up NFS, but both 5.3 em and 2.x 
> Intel
> provided drivers get stuck after some time with interface in OACTIVE 
> state.

The same happened to us too, but I tracked it down to certain built-in NICs 
on Mainboards. I had good success with NatSemi NICs, too. Especially at even 
larger MTUs.


Achim