[networking-discuss] Re: [driver-discuss] Re: [brussels-dev] dladm show-linkprop enhancements

[James Carlson]

Peter Memishian writes:
>  > Actually, the plethora of different jumbo frame sizes that various NICs
>  > support is *another* annoyance.  I think we should just pick a standard
>  > Solaris value that is typical... say 9000 bytes or somesuch, and then
>  > abandon the attempts to support other less common "jumbo sizes".  The
>  > infinite tunability here is more likely to cause problems for customers
>  > than to help them.)
> 
> I'm inclined to agree, but I'm not familiar with what causes a customer to
> choose a given value.

It's pretty simple: getting equipment from multiple vendors (and
probably from multiple eras as well) to talk.

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