[29297] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Fri Jun 16 11:15:15 2000
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: michael.dillon@gtsip.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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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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