Thanks for the reply. My desired data rate is around mbps. Thanks in advance. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. Latest Solutions. Can't find what you're looking for? You can post your question in our community. Sign up now. Historically, Ethernet has a maximum frame size of bytes. An Ethernet packet larger than bytes is called a jumbo frame.
An Ethernet frame uses a fixed-size header. The header contains no user data, and is overhead. Transmitting a larger frame is more efficient, because the overhead-to-data ratio is improved. Making casual changes to MTU to optimize performance is likely to have the opposite effect of decreasing performance. If most of your local network devices and applications can be configured for the same jumbo frame size, your network might benefit from larger packets, less fragmentation, and less overhead.
By default, this is bytes. If you increase the MTU on one of your end devices, your switch needs to be able to pass these larger frames same frame size or larger, than default MTU , and the receiving end needs to handle these larger frames as well. If this change is not coordinated, your network might actually run slower, or break. Use jumbo frames only when you have a dedicated network or VLAN, and you can configure an MTU of on all equipment, to increase performance.
A good example of this approach is a separate SAN or storage network. Join our community to see this answer! Unlock 1 Answer and 1 Comment. Andrew Hancock - VMware vExpert. See if this solution works for you by signing up for a 7 day free trial.
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