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Why should it need to? Ethernet is designed to have non-deterministic paths (except in cases of automotive, industrial, and time sensitive networks). If you get to a hop that doesn’t support jumbo frames then break it into smaller frames and send them individually. The higher layers don’t care if the data comes in one frame or ten.



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