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RE: jumbo frames

  • From: John Fraizer
  • Date: Thu Apr 26 12:38:13 2001

We only have jumbo frames enabled on router<->router links.  The GigE
ports facing the aggregation switches runs standard 1500 MTU. 



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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.
>