[Solved] Jumbo frames and fragmentation

Hi All

apologies if this is repeated. I'm not sure if the first post was accepted.

i am trying to understand when does a switch drop jumbo frames and when does it fragment it. if an end device (a server) is configured for jumbo frames and the switch is not , should'nt the switch fragment the frame to 1500 byte frames ?

in my test scenario I do a ping from the jumbo enabled server using a frame size of 2000 bytes. When jumbo frames is not configured on the switch and the default MTU is 1500 the ping times out ( i would have thought it would fragment it). When the switch is configured for jumbo frames the ping is successfull.

thanks for any explanations and help

I believe all devices on the network must support jumbo frames (and be enabled) for it to work.

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