Are different MTUs possible on the same LAN?

Hello!

Our new network switch and some of the other systems in the office
support "jumbo frames" -- ethernet frames above 1500 bytes.

Can a Windows server (2003 Server or earlier) be configured to use a larger
MTU, when talking to some of the machines on the same LAN, while keeping
the 1500 as a default for all others?

Thanks!

-mi

MTU is set per network interface, so if you are using only one network
interface the answer is no.


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"Mikhail Teterin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello!
>
> Our new network switch and some of the other systems in the office
> support "jumbo frames" -- ethernet frames above 1500 bytes.
>
> Can a Windows server (2003 Server or earlier) be configured to use a
> larger
> MTU, when talking to some of the machines on the same LAN, while keeping
> the 1500 as a default for all others?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -mi

"Andrei Ungureanu" <contact me via www.itboard.ro> wrote:

> MTU is set per network interface, so if you are using only one network
> interface the answer is no.

They can also be set per route. So, theoretically, if I add a
special "manual" route for one host on the LAN, there is a place, where I
could specify a different MTU.

It seems to not work, of course, wherever I tried, but FreeBSD and
DragonFlyBSD may soon grow this feature. I was wondering, if Windows has it
already. I guess, not :-(

Thanks!

-mi