Jumboframes

Testing Jumbo Frame Support on ESXi

You will need to SSH into the host to perform these commands. This is the basic syntax vmkping -4 -d -I <vmk-number> -s <packet-size> <address> This is an example using vmk3 and vmk4, which we will assume is used for storage. We will use a packet size of 8400 bytes (can’t use 9000 b/c there won’t be enough room to allow for IP overhead) We will assume 192.168.1.10 is the address of the storage interface vmkping -4 -d -I vmk3 -s 8400 192.
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