Jumbo Frames

Jumbo Frames
If Gigabit Ethernet is used from source to destination, you might consider using jumbo frames.
These are Ethernet frames that are 9000 bytes long. Jumbo frames don’t work well if Gigabit
is not used from end to end because fragmentation will take place, causing a small amount of
latency. Although jumbo frames aren’t likely to be used to the desktop, they can speed up the
process of data transfer between servers. An e-commerce web server that makes a lot of calls
to a database and gets large amounts of data at once would be a good candidate.