increasing the ethernet MTU greater than 1500 (1502)

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:35:00PM -0800, kamal kc wrote:
> 
> thanks for providing the insight. I would try 
> with GigE next time.
> 
> since it seems a bad option to try MTU larger than
> 1500 in 10/100 Mbps ethernet i tried another option to
> solve my problem.

Also try any number of other $5 10/100 NICs with vlan/mini-jumbo 
capabilities.

> Now i don't add additional header(2 bytes) to
> distinguish 
> the packets that were processed. I rather tried for 
> protocol mapping.
> 
> This is what i did,
> 
> i mapped the protocol (in the protocol field of the ip
> header)
> 
>           0..56 to 138..194 if compressed
>           0..56 to 195..251 if uncompressed 
> 
> with this simple protocol mapping i could only
> compress
> 57 protocol data.
> 
> I guess the protocols 138 to 251 will not be used for 
> couple of years. 
> OR Is there any slighest possibility ????

If you're sure you're not going to deal with fragments, and you're ok with 
violating rfc's and hacking the headers to suit your needs, why not steal 
the id and/or frag offset fields?

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