[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:49:46PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On 2003.03.31 18:50 Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > The 3com LanPlex 2500 has two highspeed card slots and two low speed
> > card slots.
> [...]
> Isn't the LanPlex 2500 the thing with the non-working IP
> (de)fragmentation that leads to problems when NFS is used accross the
> FDDI - Ethernet bridge?
> I remember that someone had a problem like that with a LanPlex 2500.
> Solution was to reduce the MTU on all FDDI interfaces to 1500 bytes so
> that no (de)fragmentation in the LanPlex was needed.

I've had some trouble with NFS across my LanPlex, but not with FDDI in
particular, and the solution was to make the NFS block size be the same
as ethernets just for going from ethernet to ethernet across the lanplex.