From: Mike '/m' 

On Sat, 21 May 2005 05:53:04 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

>Mike '/m'  wrote in message
>news::
>> Additionally, you may also want to double-check that your networking
>> infrastructure can properly handle gigabit speeds.  By
"properly handle"
>> I mean handle jumbo ethernet frames.  If you don't use jumbo frames, you
>> lose a lot of benefit of gigabit speeds.
>
>Don't jumbo frames really apply mostly to the traffic that one switch
>sends to another? I hear there are servers with special drivers that can
>send jumbo frames, but I haven't met them.

I use jumbo frames all the way to all my workstations.   Without them,
gigabit ethernet spends too much time acknowledging packets and not enough
time sending data (to oversimplify things).

As I understand it (and I may be wrong) you have to keep the jumbo frame
traffic on its own subnet, and not mix 'n' match it with
"regular" framed traffic.

 /m

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