[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:32 PM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> "Even though it has the same speed as Fast Ethernet (100Mbps), FDDI is 
> more efficient because it has a much larger MTU. Ethernet is limited 
> to a packet size of 1536 bytes."
>
> Not so.  That's just the default setting.  Unless you have a Sun 
> ethernet card (at least the gigabit ones, anyway, I'm not sure about 
> the HME's) you can bump the MTU size effectively to 9000 bytes or so.  
> 9000 bytes is a good size because NFS frames are 8K and the extra 
> accounts for the packet overhead.

   As far as I'm aware, jumbo frames area GigE-only thing.  Sub-gigabit 
ethernet's packet size is 1540 bytes.

           -Dave

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