[Novalug] MTU settings - jumbo frames

Peter Larsen peter@peterlarsen.org
Tue Jul 28 09:22:18 EDT 2015


Jon,
Does your switch support Jumbo frames? It's been my experience, that
only managed switches has this option.

On 07/28/2015 12:51 AM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug wrote:
> Jumbo frames with an MTU of 9000 have been mentioned in
> this thread several times.  Is there anything other than
> resetting the MTU necessary to use these jumbo frames?
>
> A little web research suggested my Intel nics support
> MTUs greater than 9K so I tried a simple test.  I timed
> a transfer (using scp) of a large (7.5GB) file with the
> MTUs set to 1500 and 9000.  Transfer took the same time,
> about 25MB/sec.
>
> Jon


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Regards
  Peter Larsen




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