Support For Jumbo Frames - Allied Telesis SwitchBlade x908 Series Software Reference Manual

Switching Introduction
To set a thrash action for a port, use the
To view the thrash action that is set for a port, use the
on page
Re-enabling a
When a port is disabled, either completely or for a specific VLAN, it remains disabled until it is
port manually re-enabled in any of the following ways:
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Support for Jumbo Frames

You can enable jumbo frame support on the switch to improve throughput and network
utilization. By increasing frame size, more data is put in each packet that the switch has to
process.
When jumbo frames support is enabled, the maximum received packet size is:
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Jumbo frame support is enabled or disabled on the entire switch, not on a per port basis. To
enable them, use the
enabled, use the
default.
14.16
15.25:
by using SNMP
by rebooting the switch or stack
by specifying a thrash timeout value along with the thrash action
via the CLI
9710 bytes for ports that work at speeds of either 10Mbps or 100Mbs
10240 bytes for ports that work at speeds of 1000Mbps
platform jumboframe command on page
show platform command on page
Software Reference for SwitchBlade® x908, x900 and x600 Series Switches
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AlliedWare Plus Operating System - Software Version 5.3.1
thrash-limiting command on page
show interface switchport command
15.20; to see whether they are
15.31. Jumbo frame support is disabled by
15.44:
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