[13424] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New MAE-EAST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Wed Nov 5 19:59:33 1997
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 19:52:46 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
Reply-To: rirving@onecall.net
To: nanog@merit.edu
Richard Irving wrote:
>
> Paul D. Robertson wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Adam Hersh wrote:
> >
> > > With all of the problems with MAE-EAST.....
> > >
> > > Any plans from anyone to create a ATM exchange point in the DC area?
> >
> > Given the latency we've seen over some ATM backbones, I certainly hope not. I
> > agree with Paul that MTU sizes in gigabit ethernet make it very
> > attractive as a next step,
Our nets *Scream*.
> > I'd certainly be interested in seeing anything
> > anyone has on fragmentation related delays going from a large MTU switched
> > environment to a small MTU switched environment though. Overall, I've
> > been less-than-pleased with latency when I've been transited that way.
> >
Uh... Doctor , it hurts when I do this.
Doctor: So don't do that!
Hint, it is *pretty* foolish to run mixed MTU's on switched fabric.
*Most* people on ATM exchanges run with common MTU's.
> > Paul
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Paul D. Robertson
> > gatekeeper@gannett.com
