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At 11:14 23/08/01, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >On a GigE interface with jumbo frames where the other side on the >same ethernet might not support jumbo frames that is probably not >the case. The packet will simply get dropped and the sender will >never know why it was dropped. Folks sending anything larger than IEEE standard frame sizes on any Ethernet need to be sure to re-configure all the equipment accordingly and test the whole subnet out thoroughly. For now, there seems to be no substitute for that (and yes, it is a fair bit of work). As near as I can tell, all switches ship with IEEE-standard MTU as the default, so require manual operator reconfiguration to support any larger frame size. Ran [email protected]
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