Re: MTU discovery

From: Olivier Galibert (galibert@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 04:50:49 EST


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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