[36922] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: jumbo frames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Wed Apr 25 23:34:32 2001
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:31:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net>
To: Paul Lantinga <prl@q9.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Paul,
We don't have any FDDI interfaces so, I have no experience at all with
them.
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Paul Lantinga wrote:
> Do you see any of the overhead akin to the
> fddi <--> ethernet boxes where the fddi's >4000mtu would get fragmented into
> the <1500mtu space of ethernet?
>
> I ask as my experience with jumbo frames over GE is a series with a limit
> approaching zero. ;)
>
> thanks, Paul LANtinga
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Fraizer [mailto:nanog@Overkill.EnterZone.Net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:10 PM
> > To: Tony Hain
> > Cc: Randy Bush; nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: RE: jumbo frames
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tony Hain wrote:
> >
> > > John Fraizer wrote:
> > >
> > > > We do on router-router links internally.
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Partially because I can. Partially because there seems to be a
> > performance increase when you start stuffing the pipe.
> >
> > ---
> > John Fraizer
> > EnterZone, Inc
> >
> >
> >
>
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
