Re: What is 'checksum offload'?

2001-08-17 Thread Hal Snyder
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Alex Kapranoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010817 01:24] wrote: ... >> Oh, and what's a jumbogram? > > Large frames, larger than standard ethernet MTU, afaik they're > 8 or 9k. I thought it was an IPv6 packet with payload >= 2^16 bytes. rfc2675 To Unsu

Re: gif MTU of 1280 ?

2001-08-08 Thread Hal Snyder
Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When using 1280 in a strict tunnel mode, I have problems with large > packets from certain sites. Broken PMTU somewhere ? Not sure, but > setting the MTU to 1500 seemed to fix it. See rfc2923, if you haven't already. (I have seen problems if a router cac

Re: router question

2001-07-16 Thread Hal Snyder
Rob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Several companies, one of which is LanMedia Corporation (LMC), sell > PCI cards that handle T1s and include an integrated CSU/DSU. So, > yes, you can terminate a T1 on your PC. Find one of these cards and > you're all set. I believe FreeBSD already has a dr