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Re: Reopening jumbo frames in IS-IS
- To: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at nokia.com>
- Subject: Re: Reopening jumbo frames in IS-IS
- From: Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:06:10 -0700
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>> Wait a minute... If Ethernet supported jumbo frames, the
>> FDDI-Ethernet bridge wouldn't have needed to support fragmentation --
>> just set the Ethernet side's MTU to 4470 and all would be well.
>
> That was back in the days of 10M Ethernet and it didn't support jumbo
> frames. Seems to me the issue would still occur unless both FDDI and
> Ethernet (w/ jumbo frames) both had the same max MTU. Someone would
> want to use the max of the bigger of the two.
While I appreciate the free trip down memory lane, I'm kind of missing
the point of the discussion here. I think that we all now acknowledge
that Jumbo Frames exist, that like it or not, they are in use. The
question now is what are we going to do about it...
Tony