[Veritas-bu] Sun GigaSwift (ce) cards
2006-02-02 21:29:59
> On the Sol10 network inquiry. They have rearchitected the stack so that
> UDP and TCP are not separate STREAMS between IP. They have combined them
> to improve on efficiency by about 20% on network transactions. >
Lots of info here:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/networkperf/
> Has anyone used jumbo frames? We are thinking about doing this on our
> backup network but I believe that ALL the clients that use that network
> would have to be configured for jumbo frames. Does anyone know this for
> sure?
Everyone on the LAN should be configured for jumbo frames. One way around
this would be to create a separate subnet/vlan that uses jumbos. I'm not
sure that routers can handle different MTUs on different VLANs on the
same interface. I couldn't figure out how to do it on my Juniper M10
but have not really investigated fully.
You should get improved performance with jumbos. Whether you'll notice
any actual application-level improvement or not of course depends on
where the bottleneck in your network is.
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