RE: MTU discovery

BALBIR SINGH (balbir.singh@wipro.com)
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:01:45 +0530


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Actually not, the Intel driver/card supports a size of

look into e1000_mac.h

#define MAX_JUMBO_FRAME_SIZE 0x3F00 (which is 16128).

The bottom line is 9000 is not the limit, it is
just the beginning of jumbo frame sizes.

Balbir

|-----Original Message-----
|From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
|[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Joel Jaeggli
|Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:32 AM
|To: Bill Davidsen
|Cc: Olivier Galibert; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
|Subject: Re: MTU discovery
|
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|9000 is the limit on gigabit ethernet, other media type have different
|maximum frame sizes (ie 4470 on fddi, 9216 on pos oc12 interfaces).
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