David S. Miller: > Wait, even more importantly are you going through a switch? > Most gigabit switches don't support 9000 byte mtu :-) > You're probably said that you're over a cross-over cable > direct connect and I've just forgotten. I'm going through a switch yes; a Cisco Catalyst 4006. I can have a chat with the networking folks here, but shouldn't the switch fragment the packet if it's too big? -- Thomas - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html