GigaBlox, SPEBlox and Jumbo Frames

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Hi there!

Do your switches support/pass through Jumbo Frames? Especially the “SINGLE PAIR ETHERNET” and “GigaBlox – Small GigaBit Switch”?

In most cases, it will say on the product page or datasheet if the device supports jumbo frames. Sometimes it doesn’t say though…

GigaBlox and GigaBlox Nano don’t support jumbo frames unfortunately.

GigaBlox Rugged, GigaStax Rugged and UbiSwitch do support jumbo.

SPEBlox does support Jumbo frames.

We have an update to GigaBlox and GigaBlox Nano that should (untested at the moment) give them the ability to handle jumbo frames. ETA is July.

Hope that helps.

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Hi @josh-elijah ,

Are there any development efforts to have the GigaBlox Nano support jumbo frames?

Thanks,
Matthew

From @josh-elijah GigaBlox Nano will support jumbo frames with a hardware update. Estimated to be available by April 2025.

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@josh-elijah Any chance these are available sooner? Gigablox Nano with Jumbo frames would be great for our small aerial robot :slight_smile:

Won’t be available until later this year unfortunately.

Oh no :slightly_frowning_face: still hoping to buy it as soon as its out

@josh-elijah is there any development to have a NDAA compliant version of the pico conn daughter board in use with the NDAA compliant version of the GigaBlox nano?

Also to support jumbo packets, end Q2 or later?

On the jumbo frames we have GigaBlox (not GigaBlox Nano) rev D currently in manufacture. This has some design tweaks to allow jumbo frames.

Once we confirm that works (eta 3 weeks), we’ll then push GigaBlox Nano to revision B, implementing the same change to allow jumbo frames.

Of course, we have to run through our stock of existing GigaBlox Nano rev A, which probably won’t happen until August.

Regarding NDAA compliant version of the PicoConn; PicoConn is just a daughterboard. It has no active circuitry, just some connectors. This usually means NDAA compliance isn’t so important on it. Does it matter to you if it’s just an connector board?