[15010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Thu Feb 5 10:16:14 1998
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 04 Feb 1998 19:42:56 EST."
<19980204194256.62667@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 09:13:10 -0500
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 19:42:56 -0500 "Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> > Unless your ISP uses BBN Butterflies and C30 IMPs in its backbone, I
> > would discount the odds of running into a link with an MTU of 576.
>
Um, C30s were never IMPs (Internet Message Processors), they were
always PSNs (Packet Switching Nodes). First project I ever worked on.
> How do I program my router to emulate one of those?
Drop it out a 3rd story window?
BBN Butterflys were one of the worst pieces of hardware ever built.
regards,
fletcher
