From owner-freebsd-net Fri Aug 17 9:28:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D9A37B409 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from wes by softweyr.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15XmYz-00098f-00; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:33:37 -0600 Subject: Re: What is 'checksum offload'? To: hal@vailsys.com (Hal Snyder) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:33:37 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <87g0aqlqa2.fsf@gamera.vail> from "Hal Snyder" at Aug 17, 2001 09:22:45 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Wes Peters Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Alfred Perlstein writes: > > > * Alex Kapranoff [010817 01:24] wrote: > ... > >> Oh, and what's a jumbogram? > > > > Large frames, larger than standard ethernet MTU, afaik they're > > 8 or 9k. > > I thought it was an IPv6 packet with payload >= 2^16 bytes. > rfc2675 "Jumbo Frames" are (gigabit) ethernet data frames holding up to 9 Kbytes. I am certain "jumbogram" is referring to the same thing. -- Wes Peters To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message