On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 09:51 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I am trying to convince myself that the IEEE 802.3ah working group > working on FTTH should not consider a proposal to increase the MTU > size of Ethernet beyond 1500 bytes. There is a strong likelyhood > that 802.3ah may require a redesign of SerDes chipsets, so why not > view this as an opportunity to recommend a physical layer design for > FTTH which is optimized for the likely use of IPv6. Actually, nearly all GigE vendors (both switch vendors and many common NIC chipsets) were long since herded into supporting a 9180 byte MTU for IP/GigE, despite the conflict with existing IEEE standards. 9810 byte MTU is the de facto convention for Ethernet jumbo frames, though it violates IEEE standards to support more than 1500 bytes (and larger won't work over CSMA/CD links anyway). I doubt that many chipsets would require redesign. Ran [EMAIL PROTECTED]
