[15080] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo - Network Architect)
Fri Feb 6 17:07:38 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 16:59:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
tonyhain@microsoft.com wrote:
> This thread has drifted all over the place and the only conclusions I can
> see are:
>
> The core infrastructure MTU is >= 1500
> People are telling clients to set their Win95 MTU to 576
> PMTU is randomly broken by clueless filtering
> Some dial-access devices are buffer limited
> A small MTU (53 byte?) would increase perceived response at the expense of
> performance
>
You missed:
HTTP is a painful protocol.
jzp
