are you talking about JUMBO frames? or am I missing something.
Increasing the size of the MTU in a gigabit network, you might be
suprised with the results. Also, not all cards are created equal,
look for ones with tcp/ip checksum offloading n stuff. The less
interupts the better, as it takes so so so long for the processer to
handle the request, it's a shame you can't get networks cards with
direct dma transfers...,like scsi.... ;-).
Laters,
Lee
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 02:12, Jon Masters wrote:
> 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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