Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.

[John Fraizer <nanog () EnterZone Net>]

If I'm not mistaken, 9000bytes is the max.

> From acenic.c (By D.Becker of course)

 * To enable jumbo frames, simply specify an mtu between 1500 and 9000
 * bytes to ifconfig. Jumbo frames can be enabled or disabled at any time 
 * by running `ifconfig eth<X> mtu <MTU>' with <X> being the Ethernet
 * interface number and <MTU> being the MTU value.

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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc


On 16 Jun 2000 michael.dillon () gtsip net wrote:

> On Fri, 16 June 2000, "Richard A. Steenbergen" wrote:
>
> > In a
> > public exchange point where you're talking to multiple networks across a
> > shared media it makes sense to do GigE, multiple GigE, 10GigE, etc, 
>
> What is the largest MTU that you can use across a GigE fabric?
>
>
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