From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 9 10:52:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA15473 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 10:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seine.cs.umd.edu (10862@seine.cs.umd.edu [128.8.128.59]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA15465 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 10:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by seine.cs.umd.edu (8.7.6/UMIACS-0.9/04-05-88) id NAA12871; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:52:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 13:52:28 -0400 (EDT) From: rohit@cs.umd.edu (Rohit Dube) Message-Id: <199610091752.NAA12871@seine.cs.umd.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Giant Ethernet Packets - worked Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thought I did send this in just for the record : 2 machines hooked back-to-back with cross-over cable could send and receive ETHERMTU=1536 byte packets. Didn't have the time to try variations, but looks like one could go upto 2^14 (16K) packets on the SMC 10/100 cards (which I was using). Limit being on the DEC 21140s packet-length field. Thanks to everybody who responded. --rohit.