How do I calculated the minimum and maximum size of an Ethernet frame with split up.We all know maximum size for Ehternet frame is 1518bytes but would be the with split up?
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The minimum and maximum frame size is mainly the constraints imposed by the traditional ethernet network at 10Mbps. Since at 10M ethernet shares the same collision domain, a client needs to detect whether a collision had occurred before sending. So, the minimum size is 64bytes at 10Mbps to ensure a collision can be detected within a time limit over certain distance over certain kind of cable specified in the standard.
Nowadays many machines have their own cable/link directly connecting to a switch/router and hence reducing their collision domain (no more collision-detect needed) down to just broadcast domain in the case for a VLAN. Some vendors can support jumbo frames up to 64k in some cases.
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