Was wondering if anyone could shine some light on the behavior of packets, is the payload (MTU) of a jumbo frame always 9000 - or up to that value. + What happens when it hits the lower MTU Emulex ...

Guys I am playing around with ESXI and jumbo frames in my home lab this is mainly for learning purposes. I am running an HP 1800-8G switch which supports up to a 9216 packet size the nics I'm using ...

Jumbo frames are intended to speed large data transfers. Ethernet specifies a certain frame size – 1,518 bytes – and that requires that large files be chopped up into chunks of that size, with all the ...

In a recent Network World “High-speed LANs” newsletter, editor Jeff Caruso posed the question: “How relevant are jumbo frames today?” He noted that, although they were never officially sanctioned by ...

For the last couple of days I've been working behind the scenes with fellow blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Ed Bott, and Microsoft to get to the bottom of the Vista gigabit throttling effect. This ...

The whole system is ethernet - no WiFi involved. I use ViceVersa Pro software to synchronize back-ups. All of these devices are less than 2 years old, all except the USB3 device support Gigabit ...