Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:00:48 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, rohit@cs.UMD.EDU, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Giant Sized Ethernet Packets Message-ID: <2739.843138048@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Sep 1996 08:50:02 EDT." <199609191250.IAA27562@whizzo.transsys.com>
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In message <199609191250.IAA27562@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writ es: >Being able to support FDDI MTUs would eliminate needless fragmentation >which is very time consuming to perform in routers. I'd love to have >FDDI (or larger!) size MTU support in Fast Ethernet VLSI. I think that >this is likely going to be part of Gigabit ethernet as it develops, and I don't think FDDI MTU is enough. I would expect 9180 to be the next good step, since it allows 8k NFS to stay in one packet for instance. I belive this is the standard for SMDS & ATM and other new media. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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