Naw... that's not how you'd configure it. Lets say we have this:
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| A|| B||C |-| D |
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Now... if a packet leaves A
"Kevin" == Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kevin Louis has it exactly right. 802.3 was modified a couple of
Kevin years ago to allow for a maximum frame size of 1522 octets, up
Kevin from the original 1518. This was to allow the VLAN information
Kevin to fit in the frame.
Kevin Since
I have been told that the MTU of 1500 bytes is hardcoded into the 10Mb
ethernet standard. Fine.
But a number of devices seem to allow for MTUs 1500 on 100Mb
ethernet... and several people have told me that the standard allows
for packets bigger than 1500 bytes.
Specifically, this seems to be
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:23:13PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
But a number of devices seem to allow for MTUs 1500 on 100Mb
ethernet... and several people have told me that the standard allows
for packets bigger than 1500 bytes.
The limit is 1536. That is hex 0x600, a value of importance if
"Joerg" == Joerg Micheel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joerg On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:23:13PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
But a number of devices seem to allow for MTUs 1500 on 100Mb
ethernet... and several people have told me that the standard
allows for packets bigger than 1500 bytes.
"Joerg" == Joerg Micheel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joerg On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 11:23:13PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
But a number of devices seem to allow for MTUs 1500 on 100Mb
ethernet... and several people have told me that the standard
allows for packets bigger than 1500
"Louis" == Louis A Mamakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Louis There's some confusion here, because the MTU is typically
Louis associated with a protocol stack like IP and refers to the
Louis largest sized (IP in this case) packet that can be sent on the
Louis network interface. In the case of
