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

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> Krzysztof Adamski wrote:
>>
>> This is not accurate, you can mix jumbo and not jumbo devices on the
>> same logical network. TCP will work perfectly, the only issue would be
>> with UDP. In the case of Myth network, UDP could be used for NFS, but
>> NFSv3 can use TCP, so that is not a problem. The other common use for
>> UDP would be DNS, but since that comes from outside, it would fit in
>> standard (1500) size packets. So unless you have a need to exchange UDP
>> packets between mixed devices, mixing jumbo and non jumbo devices is not
>> a problem.
>
> I stand corrected.  Last time I enabled jumbo frames to disastrous results.
>  This time, it seems to have gone off without a hitch.  Samba transfers
> between my file server and desktop went from 35MB/s to 55MB/s, and I don't
> seem to have trouble with anything else not working.
>
I am interested at this at work for years, however I have held off
because there is no way I could get everything to 100% jumbo frames
compatible. Maybe its time for some limited testing..

John