On Wednesday 07 Aug 2002 4:19 pm, Lee wrote:
> 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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