What Are Giants Cisco

Giants: Number of received giant frames (frames that exceed the maximum IEEE 802.3 frame size) on the port. For example, any Ethernet packet that is greater than 1518 bytes is considered a giant.

What is giant packet Cisco?

A giant frame is any frame whose size exceeds the maximum transmission unit (MTU). In ethernet thats larger than 1500bytes (not including the18 bytes for the Ethernet header and FCS). A runt is a frame that is smaller than the minimum frame size for IEEE-802.3 standard frames. In ethernet thats 64 bytes.

What causes runts and Giants?

There are a number of possible causes of runts, none which should occur on a normal, healthy network! The most likely causes are excessive collisions, which may distort Ethernet frames, causing only the first half of a frame to be seen before it is cut off by a collision.