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Subject: Re: BCE on FreeBSD and oversized packet acceptance.
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> 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.

randy