[8662] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: anyone running with large server parms on linux afs servers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Wed May 2 21:04:24 2001
To: info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Lyle Seaman's message of "Wed, 02 May 2001 08:57:38 -0400"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: 02 May 2001 17:57:09 -0700
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Lyle Seaman <lws@spinnakernet.com> writes:
> It was there because Stanford had (and may still have, given the way
> these things go) routers that couldn't handle it. You had Cisco routers
> configured with shallow forwarding queues, and they would always drop
> one frag of a jumbogram.
I've been filled in privately by the person who was there that it was a
property of our old FDDI ring, which we moved off of a couple of years
ago, so it's probably now safe for us to drop that flag.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
