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. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list driver-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
