On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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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