[131455] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Sun Oct 24 20:52:09 2010
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:52:00 -0700
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From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Coming across Phil Dykstra's paper from 1999 is what got me thinking
> about it (well, that and moving a lot of data between Europe and the
> West coast of the US).
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> http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html
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> http://staff.psc.edu/mathis/MTU/
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>=20
Found more good information here:
http://noc.net.internet2.edu/i2network/maps--documentation/policy-statem
ents.html#Jumbo%20Frames
It might not be a bad idea to take some of what is learned on Inet2 and
backport it to the 'net where possible. I also discovered that Linux
will do RFC4821 PMTU discovery if you set
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mtu_probing to the proper value. It is turned off
by default.
Solaris is on by default it appears.
