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Jumbo Frame question (Duo v2) & Perf update (new router)
Hi Guys, Quick question. I used to own the Duo v1, where you can turn on/off jumbo frames. I don't see that on the latest firmware for Duo v2. Also, I can't find it anywhere on documentation in reg...
The reason jumbo frames increases performance is that most NIC cards will generate one interrupt per packet. The larger frames reduce the packet per second rate, which lowers the CPU overhead. This mechanism applies to both read and writes.
honcho wrote: Well, to my understanding jumbo frames would help significantly to increase the write speeds and doesn't really affect the read speeds.
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