[geeks] Gigabit Ethernet

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>> If the GigE and 10baseT devices are on separate VLANs all will be well.
>> So if there's two VLAN's on the network and the two Gig E devices are on 
>> both of them, and they talk to the 10BASE-T device over the standard-MTU 
>> VLAN, and to each other over the jumbo-VLAN, everything should work ok, no?
> 
> If you have 2 different network cards in the GigE devices (one for
> jumbo, another for non-jumbo) then yea.
> 
> If you use tagged VLANs then the devices running with jumbo frames will
> still generate jumbo frames for the VLAN the 10baseT device is on.

Crap.  I guess I'll dig out some extra NICs.

Peace...  Sridhar