After buying a pair of Netgear GS108NA 8-port switches (with jumbo-frame support), I set out to test jumbo frames performance on a Linux server. I didn't really understand what I was doing, made lots ...

While Jumbo Frames technology remains in standards limbo, those who have used the technology for years continue to extol the virtues of stretching out the standard Ethernet frame size to boost Gigabit ...

Jumbo frames are intended to speed large data transfers. Ethernet specifies a certain frame size – 1,518 bytes – and that requires that large files be chopped up into chunks of that size, with all the ...

In a recent Network World “High-speed LANs” newsletter, editor Jeff Caruso posed the question: “How relevant are jumbo frames today?” He noted that, although they were never officially sanctioned by ...