Is there a reason you're running jumbo frames? If you're going to enable it you should run it on all interfaces that touch the segment. It will likely work on lower mtu devices but it is certainly not beat practice to mix and match. If you are running it internally to gain performance then you may see some improvements depending on what protocol you are using to transfer data (assuming at least gig connectivity) but unless you're ISP supports it (and you have like FTTC) you won't see any upstream gain.
nb -----Original Message----- From: "jason whitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:19:35 To:[email protected] Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] jumbo frames On your home router it shouldn't matter <sarcasm> whered you get a gig connection ran to your house?</sarcasm> On 8/6/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just switched to jumbo frames on the home network (enabled > jumbo frames (mtu 9014) on NIC and one switch). I'm running a recentish > (1.2-BETA-1-TESTING-SNAPSHOT-05-11-2007) pfsense on WRAP, with > mtu 1500 there (I don't think WRAP NICs can do jumbo frames). > > Should I run into problems? Higher latency, higher CPU load, > more memory? Don't see anything, but the box is not exactly > loaded. > > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE >
