Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > I would hope that a practical benefit of IPv6 would be improved performance > as a result of support for large packets. That is, like almost all the other ambitiously extended functionality of IPv6, an illusion. > I had really hoped that IEEE would have made support for jumbo frames an > absolute requirement for all gigabit ethernet. But nooooo, its an option so I'm not sure what is "an option", as maxUntaggedFrameSize of Ethernet is 1518B without any option, though larger frames are not actively prohibited. I'm not sure what "jumbo frames" mean, as 9KB frames which is available also to IPv4. But, if you are talking about jumbograms, which is larger than 64KB, which is IPv6 specific, they are useless. While some computers (vector super computers, especially) are slow to react on interrupts and context switching to receive packets, which was the motivation to introduce jumbograms, such computers have I/O subsystem, which can take care of TCP without bothering main CPUs. Masataka Ohta _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf