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What is a giant and a runt?

rhalkyard
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What is a giant and a runt?

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steve.barlow
Level 7
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A giant frame is any frame whose size exceeds the maximum transmission unit (MTU). In ethernet thats larger than 1500bytes (not including the18 bytes for the Ethernet header and FCS).

A runt is a frame that is smaller than the minimum frame size for IEEE-802.3 standard frames. In ethernet thats 64 bytes. Often caused by collisions.

Steve

thisisshanky
Level 11
Level 11

This link would help!

http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/users/gorry/course/lan-pages/mac.html

Sankar Nair
UC Solutions Architect
Pacific Northwest | CDW
CCIE Collaboration #17135 Emeritus

Runt is less than 64 bytes

Giant is greater than 1512 bytes

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