Using Large Network Packet

Your customer is using large network packets. And by large packets, this means packet size greater than 1514 bytes.

In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a communications protocol of a layer is the size (in bytes) of the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards. MTU parameters usually appear in association with a communications interface (NIC, serial port, etc.). Standards (Ethernet, for example) can fix the size of an MTU; or systems (such as point-to-point serial links) may decide MTU at connect time.

Step-by-step guide

Enter root shell

Add MTU to the motherboard NIC (eth0)

echo "MTU=65535" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Turn off hardware-assist offloading on the Ethernet interface.

# set the MSS
ifconfig eth0 mtu 65535
# turn off TCP offload
ethtool -K eth0 tso off
# turn off GRE offload
ethtool -K eth0 gso off

To make it permanent, edit and insert the above code into ```/etc/rc.local``` and reboot.