Jumbo frame Question

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Fri Nov 26 20:58:25 UTC 2010


On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Randy Bush wrote:

> the reason ieee has not allowed upping of the frame size is that the crc 
> is at the prudent limits at 1500.  yes, we do another check above the 
> frame (uh, well, udp4 may not), but the ether spec can not count on 
> that.

<http://staff.psc.edu/mathis/MTU/arguments.html#crc> seems to disagree?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se




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