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> A few years ago, the IETF was considering various jumbogram options. > As best I recall, that was the official response from the relevant > IEEE folks: "no". They're concerned with backward compatibility. worse. they felt that the ether checksum is good at 1500 and not so good at 4k etc. they *really* did not want to do jumbo. i worked that doc. randy
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