[mythtv-users] First Nvidia Ion box - Acer Aspire Revo prices revealed

[John Drescher]

> Could you use a layer 3 switch and set up a couple VLANs? What's so great
> about jumbo frames that it would make revamping one's network worthwhile?
>
By sending larger packets instead of (1450 bytes?) you can get the
interrupt rate from the network card down to some extent. I believe
each packet fires 1 interrupt so that the pc can inspect the packet.
And at 100MB/s that is quite a few packets per second.


John