netdev - Re: Jumbo frame question...

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:45:52 -0400
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rgetz@...ckfin.uclinux.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Jumbo frame question...

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 09:39:43AM -0700, Rick Jones wrote:
> In so far as there is no de jure spec for Jumbo Frames, it is rather 
> difficult to have a spec violation :).
>
> Not a case of too much rope?  Given that (IIRC) Jumbo Frame was not 
> introduced in Ethernet NICs until Gigabit came along (eg Alteon), the 
> chances a (legacy) 100 Mbit/s network would have JF-capable NICs is 
> epsilon.

Nothing would prevent you from using a 100Mbit fiber PHY on a gigabit
capable network port, so you could have a 100Mbit port that supported
jumbo frames.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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