[29300] 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 13:17:54 2000
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:14:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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I spoke with HP today. Their Procurve series switches support a maximum
of 1522 bytes to include 802.1Q tagging. They wouldn't discuss if they
planned to join the rest of the world in supporting jumbo frames on GigE.
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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> On 16 Jun 2000 michael.dillon@gtsip.net wrote:
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> > What is the largest MTU that you can use across a GigE fabric?
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> Frmo Extreme Networks manual:
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> 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.
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> I'd be surprised if other vendors are much different.
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> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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