[132509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Jumbo frame Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Nov 26 15:58:38 2010
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:58:25 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2oc9bygrq.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Randy Bush wrote:
> the reason ieee has not allowed upping of the frame size is that the crc
> is at the prudent limits at 1500. yes, we do another check above the
> frame (uh, well, udp4 may not), but the ether spec can not count on
> that.
<http://staff.psc.edu/mathis/MTU/arguments.html#crc> seems to disagree?
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
