On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 17:06 -0500, Alex Cresswell wrote: > I'm not sure if this has come up before, but I couldn't find anything > in the archives about it. > > I'm trying to install a machine via kickstart from another box via > nfs. I'm running into a problem that the node I'm installing can't > talk to the nfs server because it drops the 9000 byte packets from the > nfs server because it has the default mtu of 1500. It was suggested > in rfc 1191 that if you specify a smaller block size than the mtu then > the server will not send these large packets and the install can > complete. So my question is how do I pass the rsize and wsize options > to the installer? Shouldn't your switch detect that the client cannot handle the 9000-byte MTU and break the packets up into the standard 1500? We've had open support requests with Red Hat regarding setting the MTU during kickstart. RHEL 3 U6 and RHEL 4 U2 (both in beta) have this functionality, but we've not tested it yet. /Brian/
