[netperf-talk] MSDOS changes

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Thu Aug 14 10:11:18 PDT 2008


Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> Gisle Vanem wrote:
> 
>>PS. Is there a way to avoid netperf sending IP-fragments
>>in the UDP_STREAM test?
> 
> 
> use -t UDP_STREAM -- -m (<=ip payload size)
> 
> aka -t UDP_STREAM -- -m 1460

What he said :)  Although I think you can go as high as 1472 and still 
not trigger IP fragmentation - that is on a "standard" 1500 byte 
Ethernet setup.  More generally, you can go to:

<Interface MTU> - 8 (UDP header) - 20 (IPv4 header)

before IP fragmentation will happen.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones


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