[c-nsp] low end gige with jumbo frames

A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Fri Mar 18 12:01:29 EST 2005


Hi,

> It is at least configurable:
> 
> 2970#sh sys mtu
> 
> System MTU size is 1546 bytes
> System Jumbo MTU size is 9000 bytes
> 
> Don't know if it's working, though

2970g-24tse can do jumbo frames - and its a system wide setting. setting
the ports to 9000 MTU does deleiver the expected improvement
(benchmarked with 2 fast systems doing a RAM<->RAM transfer
with Intel Gig network cards)

alan


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