<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;">Digging deeper, there is also a good reason for bigger frames when one is using 600 Mbit 802.11 signalling ( that's 75 bytes per microsecond). A 1500 byte frame occupies only 50 microseconds of airtime. Not much return for the investment in contention time (5-10 microseconds) by the transmitting station. 9000 byte frames would be good, just as they are for GigE.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;">-----Original Message-----<br />From: "Alexander Hulse" <ah@amch.net><br />Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 5:53am<br />To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net<br />Subject: [Cerowrt-devel] Baby jumbo frames support?<br /><br /></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;">I've done some basic research and some (unsuccessful) hacking the on the driver source for the ag71xx driver and was wondering about baby jumbo frame support?<br /><br />I know that the WNDR37/800's built in switch supports passing jumbo frames, but the underlying router interfaces do not support large MTU frames.<br /><br />However, this:<br /><br />http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Maximum_Transmission_Unit_on_RouterBoards<br /><br />seems to imply that the built-in interfaces ought to support baby jumbo frames, unless I'm misunderstanding what they are saying.<br /><br />As to the "Why?", in the UK, the fibre offering by BT using FTTC uses a PPPoE modem that can understand PPPoE packets with an MTU 1508, as described in RFC 4638.<br /><br />It was possible using a Netgear WNR834T with the application of some patches from the pppd git:<br /><br />http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commit;h=fd1dcdf758418f040da3ed801ab001b5e46854e7<br />http://wiki.aa.net.uk/index.php/FTTC_Modem<br /><br />Would this be a useful feature to add (if possible) to CeroWrt so that full sized frames can be used if the ISP / connection supports it?<br /><br />Alex<br />_______________________________________________<br />Cerowrt-devel mailing list<br />Cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net<br />https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel</p>
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