[geeks] Gigabit Ethernet

[Phil Brutsche]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> If the GigE and 10baseT devices are on separate VLANs all will be well.
> 
> So if there's two VLAN's on the network and the two Gig E devices are on 
> both of them, and they talk to the 10BASE-T device over the standard-MTU 
> VLAN, and to each other over the jumbo-VLAN, everything should work ok, no?

If you have 2 different network cards in the GigE devices (one for
jumbo, another for non-jumbo) then yea.

If you use tagged VLANs then the devices running with jumbo frames will
still generate jumbo frames for the VLAN the 10baseT device is on.

>> What model of ProCurve? The "value" switches (ie 2510-24, 2810-24G, etc)
>> are the only ones to not support L3 switching.
> 
> I believe it's the ProCurve 1800-8G.

Doh! That's one of the web-managed value switches.

I was thinking you had something larger, say a ProCurve 2824.

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Phil Brutsche
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