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satish_txt_2254
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May 03, 2018

F5 jumbo MTU

We are building new datacenter and making all network switch run on MTU 9216 in short all my switches running on 10G with jumbo frames. Question: I am installing F5 Big-IP-LTM 10000 and crea...
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May 03, 2018

In case of Jumbo to standard 1500/1518 bytes MTU, fragmentation will occur. This may cause less than optimal performance. If a host enforces "Don't fragment (DF)" bit to 1, those communication may fail. Usually all devices which support jumbo frames should be segmented from standard frame size.