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Jumbo frame in serverfarm for a campus environment

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azev

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Is there any benefit on turning on jumbo frame on the serverfarm swiches (6506) with all gigabit connections when all the clients machine are still on 10/100 networks ?
Due to economy, future campus gigabit to desktop project have been delayed, or even deleted from the roadmad for the near future, but luckily our data center have been fully upgraded to gigabit to servers and 10gig core.
I am just curious if turning on jumbo frame in just the server farm environment would provide any benefit at all?

Thx
 
The benefit would be less work for the server. Whether it's important depends on the overall applications and traffic flow. Your 6500s will do the fragmentation of the jumbo frames provided there is a layer3 boundary between the server networks the the clients. Even then TCP will set a max segment size on the initial 3 way handshake so it won't matter for the client as the client-server conversation will be 1460 bytes unless the client supports larger. If you have a lot of server to server traffic like multitiered applications it could be very helpful, 100 base-T clients not so much.
 
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