Jumbo frame Question

Fri Nov 26 04:37:42 UTC 2010

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Harris Hui wrote:

You might want to read this:
http://kb.pert.geant.net/PERTKB/JumboMTU

-Hank

>
>
> Hi
>
> Does anyone have experience on design / implementing the Jumbo frame
> enabled network?
>
> I am working on a project to better utilize a fiber link across east coast
> and west coast with the Juniper devices.
>
> Based on the default TCP windows in Linux / Windows and the latency between
> east coast and west coast (~80ms) and the default MTU size 1500, the
> maximum throughput of a single TCP session is around ~3Mbps but it is too
> slow for us to backing-up the huge amount of data across 2 sites.
>
> The following is the topology that we are using right now.
>
> Host A NIC (MTU 9000) <--- GigLAN ---> (MTU 9216) Juniper EX4200 (MTU 9216)
> <---GigLAN ---> (MTU 9018) J-6350 cluster A (MTU 9018) <--- fiber link
> across site ---> (MTU 9018) J-6350 cluster B (MTU 9018) <--- GigLAN --->
> (MTU 9216) Juniper EX4200 (MTU 9216) <---GigLAN ---> (MTU 9000) NIC - Host
> B
>
> I was trying to test the connectivity from Host A to the J-6350 cluster A
> by using ICMP-Ping with size 8000 and DF bit set but it was failed to ping.
>
> Does anyone have experience on it? please advise.
>
> Thanks :-)