[c-nsp] jumbo MTU on WS-X6704-10GE

A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Wed Jul 5 08:18:05 EDT 2006


Hi,

> Are you positive the traffic is being thrown away?
> 
> I'm sure that someone here can give more detail, but I remember it being
> standard for that oversize counter to increment even if the traffic was
> still being passed for stuff over the standard MTU size.  I believe it
> would be counted as an error if it wasn't being forwarded.

I havent passed any production traffic across that link yet...but what concerns
me is that the original 1GbE jumbomtu link (fed from a WS-X6416-GBIC) which has exactly
the same settings does not have such giant counter increments. its all
nice 0s (apart from interface reset counter ;-) )

alan


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