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