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Chapter 6 Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature 53
Enabling Jumbo Frames in a Solaris
Environment
This section describes how to enable jumbo frames in both a SPARC and an x86
environment.
▼ To Enable Jumbo Frames in a Solaris
Environment Using nxge.conf
1. Enable Jumbo Frames for a port using the nxge.conf file. For example,
2. Reboot the system:
3. Set the maximum MTU for maximum performance:
▼ To Check Layer 2 Configuration
● View the maximum transmission unit (MTU) configuration of an nxge instance
at any time with the kstat command.
The kstat mac_mtu variable represents the complete size of the Ethernet frame,
which includes the Ethernet header, maximum payload, and crc. This value
should be equal to or less than the MTU configured on the switch.
name = "pciex108e,abcd" parent = "/pci@780/pci@0/pci@8/network@0"
unit-address = "0"
accept-jumbo=1;
% boot -r
# ifconfig nxge mtu 9194
# kstat nxge:0 | grep mac_mtu