[36967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: jumbo frames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri Apr 27 12:07:59 2001
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:55:21 -0500
From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: Kurt Kayser <kurt@noris.de>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
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From: "Kurt Kayser" <kurt@noris.de>
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> Isn't it a lot more cpu-intensive to 'collect' some 1500-byte frames
> into some larger bucket, reassemble it into a jumbo-frame when the
> next box has to chop it in order to send it out on a Sonet/PPP/etc
> interface which might have a smaller MTU again?
Intermediate routers to not 'collect' small packets into big packets.
> Kurt
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