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Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Fri Jun 16 13:19:47 2000

I spoke with HP today.  Their Procurve series switches support a maximum
of 1522 bytes to include 802.1Q tagging.  They wouldn't discuss if they
planned to join the rest of the world in supporting jumbo frames on GigE.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc


On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> 
> On 16 Jun 2000 [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > What is the largest MTU that you can use across a GigE fabric?
> 
> Frmo Extreme Networks manual:
> 
> The jumbo_frame_mtu range is 1523 to 9216. The value describes the maximum
> size "on the wire," and includes 4 bytes of CRC plus another 4 bytes if
> 802.1Q tagging is being used.
> 
> I'd be surprised if other vendors are much different.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email protected]
> 
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