[BBLISA] Ethernet Mixed Frame sizes on one net

[bblisa at richfox.org]

Hi,

I am preparing a high performance (well for our budget anyways) NFS 
server. It's a dual 3Ghz Xeon with 4GB RAM and will have an 3.5TB XServe 
RAID hanging off of it via copper fibre.

My intention is to use a quad port Intel Pro/1000 MT 4 port NIC ethernet 
bonded as a single interface running jumbo frames, most likely running 
a spartan Fedora Core 4 optimized for nfs.
The question is: Can I mix  frame sizes on the same net, ie. run regular 
and jumbo frames?
Another technical person here was under the impression that it wouldn't 
work properly. (FWIW, the switch will be a 3Com 3870, itself with 
aggregated links to other 3Com 3824s, a 3848, and an old 4400, where many 
of the nfs clients will be.)

This will be exporting nfs shares to both jumbo enabled and non jumbo 
enabled systems. I may be able to segregate all non-jumbo fram enabled 
machines off of this particular network segment (have them come in on a 
different NIC). Indeed, it's what I will do if I receive negative 
responses to this question.

Does anyone have any opinions or experience with this?

Thanks,
Rich.

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