On Mar 28, 2012, at 1:12 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> On 27 Mar 2012, at 20:28 , Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I'm seeing NAS with fast single drives or striped drives going just over 
>> 105MB/s over gigabit ethernet. I'm not sure if these are people using jumbo 
>> frames or not.
> 
> They would have to be to get those speeds over ethernet, no?

Must be. And really clean cabling, properly run, good patches, switches, etc. 
And primarily large files being transferred.

But FWIW, Apple has some hardware (2010 27" Core i5 iMac) hardware floating 
around that does not do jumbo frames. Which is appalling on the face of it, but 
then when considering that a network must have the same MTU for 
interoperability, one such computer at reception or in accounting can obviate 
jumbo frames for a whole organization or require separate LANs with a router to 
fragment packets for the castrated devices on the network.


Chris Murphy
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