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Re: (ASCEND) ATM MTU 64 KB ?



At 12:50 PM 12/23/97 +0100, Tassilo Erlewein wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I heared about Cray bus-based ATM OC3 boards that allow 
>ATM MTU's up to 64 KB... 
>now I would like to ask you:
>
>Did you ever hear of plans, did you ever see a manual page
>in NetStar/Ascend GigaRouter/GRF documentation which could be
>interpreted in the direction of a non-standard big ATM MTU size
>- say 64K Bytes - in order to make ATM-to-HIPPI transitions
>in a Cray environment a happier affair?
>(I know there is now a hint in the GRF manual saying only 
>ATM MTU's up to 9180 bytes are supported)

I believe the max size for a SONET frame is 9188 bytes. Are you sure you
want to go higher?

Matt Holdrege		http://www.ascend.com	matt@ascend.com
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