Change MTU?
Change MTU?
Can you change the MTU of the virtualbox TAP adapter? keywords: jumbo frames, 1500, 9000
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TerryE
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Well for one thing the AMD chipsets that are the default virtualised NICs don't support jumbo frames. The Intel NICs do, I believe. And since the vnet driver is not paravirtualised then jumbo frames would decrease the network virtualisation overhead by a factor of four.
I am a bit up to my eyeballs at the moment otherwise I'd have a look. If you want to see for yourself, then download the source code. The two directories that you need to focus on are:
I am a bit up to my eyeballs at the moment otherwise I'd have a look. If you want to see for yourself, then download the source code. The two directories that you need to focus on are:
- src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxTAP
- src/VBox/Devices/Network
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