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DGS-3600 Series Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet Managed Switch CLI Manual
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JUMBO FRAME COMMANDS
Certain switches can support jumbo frames (frames larger than the Ethernet frame size of 1536 bytes). To transmit
frames of up to 9K (and 9216 bytes tagged), the user can increase the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size from the
default of 1536 by enabling the Jumbo Frame command.
The jumbo frame commands in the Command Line Interface (CLI) are listed (along with the appropriate parameters) in
the following table.
Command Parameters
enable jumbo_frame
disable jumbo_frame
show jumbo_frame
Each command is listed, in detail, in the following sections.
enable jumbo_frame
Purpose Used to enable the jumbo frame function on the Switch.
Syntax
enable jumbo_frame
Description This command will allow ethernet frames larger than 1536 bytes to be processed by the
Switch. The maximum size of the jumbo frame may not exceed 9216 bytes tagged.
Parameters None.
Restrictions Only Administrator and Operator-level users can issue this command.
Example usage:
To enable the jumbo frame function on the Switch:
DGS-3627:admin# enable jumbo_frame
Command: enable jumbo_frame
Success.
disable jumbo_frame
Purpose Used to disable the jumbo frame function on the Switch.
Syntax
disable jumbo_frame
Description This command will disable the jumbo frame function on the Switch.
Parameters None.
Restrictions Only Administrator and Operator-level users can issue this command.
Example usage:
