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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 11:05:13AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>   Some devices do, however, support reception (and transmit) of what
>   is called "jumbograms".  With boomerang you can set a register
>   to contain the limit value.  Alternatively with boomerang, and
>   its predecessors, you can set a bit to accept extra-large frames.
> 
>   I recall the ultimate limit is in order of 4kB.

Actually, in my experience jumbograms are usually 9000 bytes.

  OG.

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