[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Jarl nilsson]

Nice kb! I'll keep it bookmarked.

Another idea to help Christian might be to run jumbo frames over bonded
NIC's.  (Caveat Emptor: I haven't tried it myself. A bazillion things
may go wrong and you might find yourself wasting more time.)

/Jarl

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 10:25 -0700, Rick Moen wrote: 
> Quoting Jarl nilsson (svlug at thinkgland.com):
> 
> > you may want to experiment with MTU sizes larger than the customary 1500 
> > (google "Jumbo frames").  Depending on how you decide to lay out your topology
> > (and depending on the individual components), you *MIGHT* get a significantly 
> > better throughput.    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> To my astonishment, Christian's recent $30 D-Link switch purchase _is_ 
> claimed to support frame sizes up to 9600 bytes[1].  The real question, 
> then, is whether the two NICs do.  Anyhow, if it helps, I attempted to
> document this issue a few years back:  "Gigabit Ethernet" on
> http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/
> 
> [1] http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=494
> 
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