[15000] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Thu Feb 5 03:57:52 1998
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 05 Feb 1998 00:51:49 -0800
In-Reply-To: perry@piermont.com's message of 5 Feb 98 07:32:57 GMT
perry@piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) writes:
> This will effectively triple the number of packets that routers have
> to do processing on, that's why.
The intent is right, but the result here is wrong. Unfortunately, 1500
byte packets are rare. About 6.9% of the traffic (by packet). Yes, it
would triple that fragment of the traffic. However, that would not affect
the other (much more common) packet sizes in the distribution.
If you wanna worry about the number of packets in the net, worry about the
40 byte packets. Dem's da killas. ;-)
Tony
