Bug 255070 - Improve Jumbo Frames support / user experience
Summary: Improve Jumbo Frames support / user experience
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: kern (show other bugs)
Version: CURRENT
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: Kevin Bowling
URL:
Keywords:
: 210901 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 218894
Blocks:
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Reported: 2021-04-14 22:16 UTC by Kevin Bowling
Modified: 2021-04-21 03:54 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Kevin Bowling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-14 22:16:31 UTC 
Jumbo frames work poorly on FreeBSD out of the box.  There are a variety of opinions on this issue, but the status quo leaves users in the position to find this out the hard way.

A definition of done for this issue:
Jumbo frames work better out of the box
Comment 1 Kevin Bowling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-14 22:16:52 UTC 
*** Bug 210901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Kevin Bowling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-14 23:05:26 UTC 
See also https://reviews.freebsd.org/rS344817
Comment 4 Kevin Bowling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-15 16:30:43 UTC 
See also https://gist.github.com/freqlabs/eba9b755f17a223260246becfbb150a1
Comment 5 dgilbert 2021-04-16 04:00:57 UTC 
We should mark drivers that handle 9k MTU and those that don't and exhibit this behaviour ... mark them in their man pages.  I often buy hardware based on reading the FreeBSD man page for the hardware --- and were I again going to attempt jumbo packets on my network, I would want this in the man pages.
Comment 6 Kubilay Kocak freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-04-21 03:54:12 UTC 
^Triage: 

  - This issue appears to be a a non-(bug)-specific issue, suitable as a parent/meta issue. Re-classify accordingly, incl switching blockers to dependencies.

  - Reporter is committer, assign accordingly (coordinator/champion)