Guys I am playing around with ESXI and jumbo frames in my home lab this is mainly for learning purposes. I am running an HP 1800-8G switch which supports up to a 9216 packet size the nics I'm using ...

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 ...

The maximum transmission unit (MTU) for a protocol sets the top limit on how big its packets can be. However, the network devices they pass through, encapsulation, and other factors can complicate ...

The whole system is ethernet - no WiFi involved. I use ViceVersa Pro software to synchronize back-ups. All of these devices are less than 2 years old, all except the USB3 device support Gigabit ...