jumbo frames

Fri Apr 27 16:27:06 UTC 2001

Greg Maxwell wrote:
>that it makes sence to use jumbo frames between routers when they are
>encapsulating packets from links with a 1500b mtu, so you don't have to
>reduce your MTU to 1450 or fragment, i.e.
>endnode-ether-router>tunnel-jumbo_ether-router-jumbo-ether-tunnel>router-et
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Thank you. This explains why jumbo frames make sense. Without the context
that there are tunnels, statements about performance gains appeared to be
subjective.

Tony