IPv4 MTU and Maximum Frame Size
If you have one interface connected to a server
that uses jumbo frames and two other interfaces connected to clients that can support
jumbo frames, you might increase the MTU only on those three IP interfaces.
Because you need to allow for the Ethernet
header and the cyclic redundancy check (CRC), IP MTU must always be less that the
maximum frame size, as follows:
- 18 bytes for untagged packets
- 22 bytes for single-tagged
packets
- 26 bytes for dual-tagged packets