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Jumbo packets and MTU

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Jumbo packets and MTU

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- [Male] When we connect our iSCSI initiator to an iSCSI target, we do so using our Network Connections and Ethernet. However, many times the packet size is much larger when connecting to a storage area network. And this can be the same whether it's a storage device from another company or whether it's a Windows server that's acting as an iSCSI target. So what we need to do is go into Control Panel on both our iSCSI target and initiator and set up what's called "jumbo packets." Jumbo packets allows us to create a larger packet size so we don't end up fragmenting our packets when we send back and forth to our SAN, which uses larger than the default size of around 1500 bytes. So I'm going to right-click on the network connection that's going to connect to our SAN and then I'm going to go to "Advanced," and from here, I should see an option for jumbo packet. If your network card doesn't support it, then you just won't see it. Now I'm going to see the value, which once again is around…

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