BCE on FreeBSD and oversized packet acceptance.

[Randy Bush]

>>> what size is the actual maximal sized jumbo packet we will ever see?
>> some transpac science community folk, who care more about speed trials
>> with big data sets than they do about over-stretching the ethernet crc,
>> use 9k jumbo frames.
> well that's the standard but the highest I've seen mentioned as a normal
> size is I think 9220 bytes.

i suggest being careful with the word "standard."  ieee, which controls
the ethernet spec, has refused to standardize anything above 1500 on the
grounds that it would over-stretch the crc.

randy