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Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:31:32 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, RJ Atkinson wrote:
Only devices exchanging frames with each other need have the same MTU. One could easily imagine one 802.1q VLAN with MTU N and a different 802.1q VLAN with MTU Y all on the same switch, to give a trivial example. Some exchanges already use VLANs with their GigE switches for a variety of business reasons.
Which is exactly how we've done it with our testbed here in Stockholm. One VLAN where you are REQUIRED to handle 4470 MTU to be able to join, and one MTU 1500 vlan. There are some equipment that'll fragment IP when doing L2 forwarding to a lesser MTU port (FE for instance) (one of the old Cabletron companies) just like the old DEC gigaswitches used to do, but I prefer to have everybody in the same L2 domain talk the same size MTU. Seems much cleaner, and most vendors support at least 4470MTU on their GigE ports these days. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
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- RE: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...), (continued)
- RE: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 22)
- RE: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 22)
- RE: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Leo Bicknell (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Marc Slemko (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Leo Bicknell (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Dan Hollis (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Miquel van Smoorenburg (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 23)
- RE: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 22)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs RJ Atkinson (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) John Kristoff (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) John Kristoff (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Miquel van Smoorenburg (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Antony Antony (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) RJ Atkinson (Aug 23)
- Re: Ethernet NAPs (was Re: Miami ...) Antony (Aug 23)