23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
11:37 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:18:09AM -0500, John Kristoff wrote:
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
If NAPs do not support jumbos, then end systems will never support them.
Many end systems will never support jumbo frames, period. There are lots of 10/100 Mb/s ethernet hosts that will not ever be upgraded.
3Com Vortex/Boomerang 10/100 Mb/s claims to support FIDDI size packets 4.5K. Texas Instruments ThunderLAN 10/100Mbps PCI Network Controller can support 65536 bytes. Details http://www.scyld.com/expert/100mbps.html Any one has experience with TI chipset ? for those who interested in IPv6, Path MTU Discovery is not in IPv6 stack. To have end to end jumbo frames in native v6 we NAPs in the path should support jumbo frames. -antony