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Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Jun 16 11:24:23 2000

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:22:09 +0200 (MEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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On 16 Jun 2000 michael.dillon@gtsip.net wrote:

> What is the largest MTU that you can use across a GigE fabric?

Frmo Extreme Networks manual:

The jumbo_frame_mtu range is 1523 to 9216. The value describes the maximum
size "on the wire," and includes 4 bytes of CRC plus another 4 bytes if
802.1Q tagging is being used.

I'd be surprised if other vendors are much different.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se





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