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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. --- 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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