[rescue] The Practical Guide to FDDI

Phil Brutsche phil at tux.obix.com
Fri Mar 28 11:20:58 CST 2003


Joshua Snyder wrote:
> This didn't sound correct to me, I have seen systems pushing 700Mbit
> bi-directionally without using jumbo frames.  So I did a google for the
> gigabit white paper, http://www.10gea.org/GEA1000BASET1197_rev-wp.pdf  I
> don't see anything talking about speed limits when using normal frame
> sizes.  After looking at the white paper I don't even see a reason why it
> would be limited (baring hardware limitations).  Not that you wouldn't
> want to run with jumbo frames if you could, but most of the time your
> stuck using normal frames.  Are you sure about that limit?

Fairly certain.  I certainly never could get more than 20MB/sec without 
fudging with the frame size.

Knowing the configuration of the systems you saw would certianly help.

I guess I'll have to try it again.

-- 

Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com


More information about the rescue mailing list