Talk:Jumbo frame
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[edit] merge discussion
I'd suggest that it would make more sense to
- merge the content in Jumbo Frames into Jumbogram
- change Jumbo Frames to be a redirect to Jumbogram
- add Jumbo frames as a redirect also
Both articles are very short at present, and there's more scope for developing Jumbogram into a fully-fledged article than the more specific jumbo frames topic.
Jon Dowland 12:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
- Why is the term "jumbogram" any better than "jumbo frame"? If anything, "jumbo frame" is in much wider use. Look at the sources in this article, and look at the settings for your NICs and switches, if the options are there. If the option isn't merely listed as "MTU size", I bet it'll be "jumbo frames." I say, if anything, merge "jumbogram" into this article. --UNHchabo 07:27, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Recommend not merge Jumbo Frames and Jumbograms
I don't believe the pages for Jumbo Frames and Jumbograms should be merged. They are not at all the same thing. Jumbo frames are an extension of the 802.3 hardware specification and are part of the MAC layer of the protocol stack (I am still looking for the hardware spec for jumbo frames). Jumbo frames are also applicable to both IPv4 and IPv6. The term jumbograms is quite clearly defined as part of the IPv6 layer of the Internet protocol stack.
It is unfortunate that both terms have "jumbo" in them as they are really very separate things. It is true that both Wikipedia pages are quite small, now, but that is because they are missing a lot of information, not because they should be merged. Hrob 01:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
