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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:21:26 +0900
From:      itojun@iijlab.net
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        hal@vailsys.com (Hal Snyder), freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is 'checksum offload'? 
Message-ID:  <18819.998133686@itojun.org>
In-Reply-To: wes's message of Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:33:37 CST. <E15XmYz-00098f-00@softweyr.com> 

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>> 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.

	in IPv6, as hal mentioned, jumbogram means patckets with >= 2^16  bytes.
	usual terminology confusion.  in this thread, it should mean
	GbE jumbo frames - we need to understand the meaning of the word
	in context dependent manner...

itojun

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