> How limiting is 1500 for the end-nodes for most people? For access-, distribution-, and core-layer switches the ASICs process things at wire speed, so does it

> How limiting is 1500 for the end-nodes for most people? For access-, distribution-, and core-layer switches the ASICs process things at wire speed, so does it matter what the frame size is?\ Well, here's my personal experience for instance. If you take a Linux server and try to do put a 10G interface into a bridge, that disables a good amount of the offload capability of the network card. As a result you don't get 10G anymore even on fairly decent hardware. So VMs in a bridge with a 10G interface is already a configuration that doesn't quite work. VFIO does the trick fortunately. Also, surely even for ASICs there's a cost that comes with having to handle 150M packets/s. And yeah, you can do those speeds on switches and devices with limited functionality, but maybe I want some iptables rules on my server hooked up to 100G. And all of those are really workarounds that shouldn't be necessary. Having more than a hundred million packets per second is something that only happens because things got fossilized on a tiny packet size, not because there's actually some point to splitting up a 2 GB download into more than a million tiny bits.