Mhh. Why don't you drop the jumbo frames, buy a $50 gigabit switch and make yourself a nice giga/fast star-shaped network ? Then the only devices that need to be on all the time are the router and the switch.
Otherwise you can try a lot a crazy networking stints, using bridging (with different MTUs, urgh.), route priorities, NATing... but you should definitely state the OS you're using. Jumbo frames are not seen by devices which are not designed or configured to receive them. 99.9% of the regular fast ethernet cards will only support a standard max MTU of 1500 (bytes). SBs must be in this case, but maybe the payload is always < 1500, hence SBs would work on a jumbo-enabled network? Jumbo frames are non-standard, a real pain. IMO, any machine with a bit of CPU -which NASes do usually lack, unfortunately- will not show significant differences in throughput, between giga MTU 1500 and giga MTU 9000. I would advise timing data transfers (small files, big files..) in both configurations and see if the difference in real-world performance warrants segregating a network. -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73714 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
