North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: jumbo frames
We only have jumbo frames enabled on router<->router links. The GigE ports facing the aggregation switches runs standard 1500 MTU. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Paul Lantinga wrote: > well, actually, I haven't had any for, oh, 5 years. Anyhow, what I was > getting at was what kind of price you pay performancewise for mtuX <--> > mtuY? Isn't there some penalty you pay in the conversion of jumbo to > normal? > > Years ago I ran a network that was all fddi with 4k mtu in the core and to > all the servers Everthing else ran ethernet and thus didn't get the > advantage of the big packets. > > -Paul. >
|