[15052] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FDDI or 100Mb Ethernet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Thu Feb 5 23:51:39 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 20:32:40 -0800
To: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980205193523.16301G-100000@shell.inch.com>
At 04:42 PM 2/5/98 , Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>We have a choice of FDDI or 100Mb ethernet. I'm thinking FDDI is better,
>and not too much more expensive for our side. Are there any negatives
>with FDDI? How does the 4000(?) Byte MTU affect things? All of our
>outgoing links, T1 and ether are all 1500. Does the work of fragmenting
>the packets down to 1500 amount to anything?
There is work on creating "jumbo" frames for GbE which would take away the
1500 "cell" limit.
>All this talk about MTUs has got me wondering.
>
Why on earth are you paying attention to that thread??
--Kent
