Re: MTU discovery

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:45:23 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:05:13AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > Some devices do, however, support reception (and transmit) of what
> > is called "jumbograms". With boomerang you can set a register
> > to contain the limit value. Alternatively with boomerang, and
> > its predecessors, you can set a bit to accept extra-large frames.
> >
> > I recall the ultimate limit is in order of 4kB.
>
> Actually, in my experience jumbograms are usually 9000 bytes.

To assist in searching for info, I've also seen the terms "jumbo packets"
and "jumbo frames."

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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