From: John Beckett 

Mike '/m'  wrote in message
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> I use jumbo frames all the way to all my workstations.

Thanks for encouraging me to update my knowledge. I was blissfully unaware
that this is (apparently) so easy.

> 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.

That's certainly the case with switches which have some method that I have
forgotten that allows them to judge whether they are talking to a device
that can handle over-size frames. A standard Ethernet NIC would regard any
frame over 1500 bytes as an error.

John

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