12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
2:15 p.m.
A few years ago, the IETF was considering various jumbogram options. As best I recall, that was the official response from the relevant IEEE folks: "no". They're concerned with backward compatibility.
worse. they felt that the ether checksum is good at 1500 and not so good at 4k etc. they *really* did not want to do jumbo. i worked that doc. randy