[38579] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: jumbo frames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Leinen)
Thu Jun 7 15:33:53 2001
To: RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org>
Cc: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Simon Leinen <simon@limmat.switch.ch>
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Date: 07 Jun 2001 21:33:17 +0200
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>>>>> "ra" == RJ Atkinson <rja@inet.org> writes:
> Mostly cisco has had trouble getting with the Jumbo MTU
> program, though occasionally they do something reasonable. Most
> non-cisco GigE products are engineered to support the 9180 IP MTU
> (RFC-1626).
Foundry being a notable exception, although they intend to support
larger-than-1500-bytes MTUs on upcoming line card designs.
--
Simon.
