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RE: jumbo frames


From: John Fraizer <nanog () Overkill EnterZone Net>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:29:22 -0400 (EDT)



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.





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