How to test if 9000 MTU/Jumbo Frames are working
Introduction Fairly straight forward this time, you’ve configured your MTU/jumbo frames to be 9000 on your client and destination devices (say a laptop/desktop/server/san/nas) and on ALL your switching devices in between - you’ve done that right? ;) Testing So the next step is, we want to test if our new 9000 byte MTU is actually working and we can reap the benefits of a larger packet size (whether it’s on iSCSI, LAN, whatever) being of course a higher latency but also higher throughput....