[131909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hargrave)
Sun Nov 7 03:46:04 2010
From: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0B14C7F1@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:45:53 +0000
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7 Nov 2010, at 08:24, George Bonser wrote:
> It will happen on its own as more and more networks configure =
internally
> for larger frames and as more people migrate out of academia where =
9000
> is the norm these days into industry.
I used to run a large academic network; there was a vanishingly small =
incidence of edge ports supporting >1500byte MTU. It's possibly even =
more tricky than the IX situation to support in an environment where you =
commonly have mixed devices at different speeds (most 100mbit devices =
will not support >1500) on a single L2, often under different =
administrative control.=
