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Date:      Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:25:09 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: BCE on FreeBSD and oversized packet acceptance.
Message-ID:  <46EC1575.4070401@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <46EC0E75.5070307@psg.com>
References:  <46EAE78D.8060108@elischer.org> <46EC0E75.5070307@psg.com>

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Randy Bush wrote:
>> what size is the actual maximal sized jumbo packet we will ever see?
> 
> some transpac science community folk, who care more about speed trials
> with big data sets than they do about over-stretching the ethernet crc,
> use 9k jumbo frames.

well that's the standard but the highest I've seen mentioned as a normal
size is I think 9220 bytes.





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