When balancing traffic, network administrators often wish to avoid reordering Ethernet frames. For example, TCP suffers additional overheads when dealing with out-of-order packets. This goal is ...

The packet data market is feeling pressure from IP VPN and Ethernet services; but because most businesses are transitioning their networks to emerging services and not performing full, one-time ...

I have a few servers that like to nearly peg their CPUs when doing large file trasfers over gigabit (1500 MTU). If I enable large frames (jumbo) on just their ports, will this cause any funny things ...

Everything you stream and share is broken into network packets. Learn how this enables the seamless flow of data that powers the internet. Network packets are small units of data that are sent from ...

It’s a common benchmarking practice to take multiple measurements of throughput or latency, each using a different packet size. There’s no one right answer as to which packet size represents the ‘best ...