James Carlson wrote:
> Peter Memishian writes:
>
>> > Actually, the plethora of different jumbo frame sizes that various NICs
>> > support is *another* annoyance. I think we should just pick a standard
>> > Solaris value that is typical... say 9000 bytes or somesuch, and then
>> > abandon the attempts to support other less common "jumbo sizes". The
>> > infinite tunability here is more likely to cause problems for customers
>> > than to help them.)
>>
>> I'm inclined to agree, but I'm not familiar with what causes a customer to
>> choose a given value.
>>
>
> It's pretty simple: getting equipment from multiple vendors (and
> probably from multiple eras as well) to talk.
>
>
And for those purposes, the only two values that are in common use on
ethernet are 1500 and 9000. Other values are far less common unless the
customer has a fully homogeneous network.
- -Garrett
