Re: Gigabit switch recomendations?

From: unit3 <unit3_at_no.spam.please>
Date: Thu Mar 15 2007 - 12:33:03 CST

Dave Hall wrote:
> It wouldn't, it would be up to the sending and receiving hosts to figure
> that out through path MTU discovery.
>
> If the switch isn't able to deal with jumbo frames, there are only two
> things it might do, drop the frame or truncate the frame.
>
Ok, but given any of those scenarios, is a 2.6.x Linux system's path MTU
discovery smart enough to figure out what's going on and correct? Or
will it just send data out to get mangled and not detect it?

Graeme
Received on Thu Mar 15 12:33:55 2007

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