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Posted Jun 25, 2018 17:28 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)In reply to: MTU by farnz
Parent article: TCP small queues and WiFi aggregation — a war story
That seems bogus, I'm pretty sure I have many pieces of equipment using jumbo frames, whatever IEEE has in their written specs or whatever they "like".
Posted Jun 25, 2018 17:40 UTC (Mon)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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You do, but they're not using IEEE standard Ethernet (jumbo frames implies not IEEE standard) - and WiFi standards (including frame aggregation) are written to get high performance when using IEEE standard Ethernet.
Hence frame aggregation rather than high MTUs - a high MTU for performance means being outside the IEEE standard, while a 1500 MTU allows you to be inside the standard.
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