23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
11:58 a.m.
At 11:14 23/08/01, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
On a GigE interface with jumbo frames where the other side on the same ethernet might not support jumbo frames that is probably not the case. The packet will simply get dropped and the sender will never know why it was dropped.
Folks sending anything larger than IEEE standard frame sizes on any Ethernet need to be sure to re-configure all the equipment accordingly and test the whole subnet out thoroughly. For now, there seems to be no substitute for that (and yes, it is a fair bit of work). As near as I can tell, all switches ship with IEEE-standard MTU as the default, so require manual operator reconfiguration to support any larger frame size. Ran rja@inet.org