On 11/9/2015 9:57 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > The real issue relates to doing pcap on an interface that is > hooked to a span port. The super jumbo frames cause > rx_long_length_errors: 2701813 > which show up in our monitoring software and the customer thinks there > are error on his > network. > > So I wanted to increase the mtu on the interface so these errors would > not be reported. 9K or so is the upper limit for MTU on most NIC cards, and many are less than that. this is a hardware thing, has nothign to do with software. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz