Re: [nottingham] Bonding Ethernet Channels into one 2 x Pipe

From: Jon Masters (jonathan@jonmasters.org)
Date: Wed 07 Aug 2002 - 02:12:12 BST


On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Robert Davies wrote:

> What MTU size does your Giga use? I remember that 1500 was extended
> (breaking specs by some manufacturers to reduce interrupt load).

1500 as standard. I doubt it's that given that the reported speeds occured
using a CAT5e crossover cable...and the machines aren't so pathetic as to
not be able to handle the number of interupts and therefore context
switches per second generated I suppose.

Jon.

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