[nsp] Frame bursting

[Niels Bakker]

* goemon at anime.net (Dan Hollis) [Tue 01 Apr 2003, 01:39 CEST]:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>> Reality check: 1 Gbps = 1000000000/(1538*8) pps = 81274 pps at normal
>> frame sizes, and 1000000000/(9038*8) pps = 13830 pps with 9000 byte
>> jumbo frames.
> I thought jumbo frames could be larger... 64k?

Those are IPv6 jumbo packets, and they can be fragmented.  Jumbo frames
over Gigabit Ethernet are 9,000-odd bytes.

Regards,


	-- Niels.

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