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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:45:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: MTU discovery
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> 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.

To assist in searching for info, I've also seen the terms "jumbo packets"
and "jumbo frames." 

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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