Hi, On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:57:21PM +0300, Martin T wrote: > 1) as I understand, frames larger than MTU are automatically > fragmented by switch. I understand, that it takes some processing > power and probably time as well(latency increases), but are there any > other disadvantages if fragmentation occurs?
No. Switches do not fragment. They will just drop a bigger-than-1500
packet coming in on some port if the egress port cannot handle that.
*Routers* will fragment (and it will cost).
> 2) when we talk about MTU(standard Ethernet v2 frame 1500B, jumbo
> frames 1500B - 9000B etc), then we don't count in L2 header? So for
> example 802.1qinq frame including multiple VLAN tags, srcMAC, dstMAC,
> EtherType and CRC with payload less 1500B is still counted as regular
> Ethernet v2 MTU?
Yes. (If you transport these over MPLS, for example, you do have to
take them into account with 1518 or 1522 bytes)
> 3) on the image, all the switches have "system mtu 1552". Am I
> correct, that "system mtu" setting only affects 10BASE-T and
> 100BASE-TX ports? And this 1552B does not include the L2 header,
> right?
No idea how the MXes or 4500s do that.
On a 6500, you can (and have to) enable jumbo MTU for each individual port.
But yes, you'll need to enable jumbo mtu along the whole path.
gert
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