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Re: jumbo frames


From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:55:21 -0500


From: "Kurt Kayser" <kurt () noris de>

Isn't it a lot more cpu-intensive to 'collect' some 1500-byte frames
into some larger bucket, reassemble it into a jumbo-frame when the
next box has to chop it in order to send it out on a Sonet/PPP/etc
interface which might have a smaller MTU again?

Intermediate routers to not 'collect' small packets into big packets.

Kurt

S

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