Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:45:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: MTU discovery |
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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."
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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