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RE: jumbo frames

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Wed Apr 25 23:36:58 2001 
Paul,

We don't have any FDDI interfaces so, I have no experience at all with
them.


On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Paul Lantinga wrote:

> Do you see any of the overhead akin to the 
> fddi <--> ethernet boxes where the fddi's >4000mtu would get fragmented into
> the <1500mtu space of ethernet?
> 
> I ask as my experience with jumbo frames over GE is a series with a limit
> approaching zero.  ;)
> 
> thanks, Paul LANtinga
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Fraizer [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:10 PM
> > To: Tony Hain
> > Cc: Randy Bush; [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: jumbo frames
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tony Hain wrote:
> > 
> > > John Fraizer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > We do on router-router links internally. 
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > > 
> > > Tony 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Partially because I can.  Partially because there seems to be a
> > performance increase when you start stuffing the pipe.
> > 
> > ---
> > John Fraizer
> > EnterZone, Inc
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc