On Dec 29, 2007 11:41 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What on earth is this?
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-debian-ubuntu-jumbo-frames-configuration/
>
> I was under the impression that Ethernet frames can never be more than
> 1500 bytes.
>
> Or is it some kind of stupid linux hack? Or does it have any meaning?

No, yes.

> Is there real value in this?

Can be.

http://www.psc.edu/~rreddy/networking/mtu.html

> I don't get it.

http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/jumbo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frames

DS

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