On Mon, 26 May 2014 17:47:06 Toby Corkindale wrote:
You definitely want to be using jumbo frames for gig ethernet; I advise using ethernet chipsets with hardware off-load as well, and ensure it's enabled at boot.
Not always, it's a PITA to configure and most networks don't need it. My home network is running at 100baseT and I don't have problems with that speed.
I don't understand why you're worried about enabling the jumbo frames though. It doesn't break backwards compatibility. Your 100baseT stuff will continue to function fine.
Except that a switch will drop a jumbo packet destined for a non-jumbo port. So you can have situations where things work at low speed but break as soon as you send lots of data and get a larger TCP segment size. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/