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Special Forums IP Networking Solaris 11 Express NAT/Router IP Fragments Post 302511918 by vectox on Friday 8th of April 2011 12:59:20 AM
Old 04-08-2011
Solaris 11 Express NAT/Router IP Fragments

Upon replacing my linux router/server with a Solaris one I've noticed very poor network performance. The server itself has no issues connecting to the net, but clients using the server as a router are getting a lot of IP fragments as indicated from some packet sniffing I conducted.

Here was my old setup.
<DSL_Modem>-<Linux Router>-<switch>-<wifi>-<macbook>
- this setup works fine, with no fragmentation or performance issues

Setup 1
<DSL_Modem>-<Sol 11 Router>-<switch>-<wifi>-<macbook>
- this setup has major packet fragmentation

Setup 2 (taking wifi out of the flow)
<DSL_Modem>-<Sol 11 Router>-<switch>-<macbook>
- this setup has major packet fragmentation

I played with various MTU settings on the solaris server internal NIC, but it made no difference so I tried a couple of things with the client box.

I determined the max MTU I could send from my macbook as 1464 without getting fragmentation by using:
ping -D -s 1464 <any internet ip>

Once I manually set my MTU down to 1464 on my macbook instead of the default 1500 web pages started loading normally. So here's the problem...why do I have to manually set the MTU on the client macbook when I have my solaris server setup as a router. Is there some network related tuning I can perform on the server that will address these issues?
 

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IP-TOKEN(8)							       Linux							       IP-TOKEN(8)

NAME
ip-token - tokenized interface identifier support SYNOPSIS
ip token { COMMAND | help } ip token set TOKEN dev DEV ip token del dev DEV ip token get [ dev DEV ] ip token [ list ] DESCRIPTION
IPv6 tokenized interface identifier support is used for assigning well-known host-part addresses to nodes whilst still obtaining a global network prefix from Router advertisements. The primary target for tokenized identifiers are server platforms where addresses are usually manually configured, rather than using DHCPv6 or SLAAC. By using tokenized identifiers, hosts can still determine their network prefix by use of SLAAC, but more readily be automatically renumbered should their network prefix change [1]. Tokenized IPv6 Identifiers are described in the draft [1]: <draft-chown-6man-tokenised-ipv6-identifiers-02>. ip token set - set an interface token set the interface token to the kernel. TOKEN the interface identifier token address. dev DEV the networking interface. ip token del - delete an interface token delete the interface token from the kernel. dev DEV the networking interface. ip token get - get the interface token from the kernel show a tokenized interface identifier of a particular networking device. Arguments: coincide with the arguments of ip token set but the TOKEN must be left out. ip token list - list all interface tokens list all tokenized interface identifiers for the networking interfaces from the kernel. SEE ALSO
ip(8) AUTHOR
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