[15093] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Howard)
Fri Feb 6 22:45:35 1998
From: Phil Howard <phil@charon.milepost.com>
To: ltd@interlink.com.au (Lincoln Dale)
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 21:32:22 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199802070203.KAA23683@techpkwa2.curtin.edu.au> from "Lincoln Dale" at Feb 7, 98 10:03:58 am
> perhaps this is one of the not-so-obvious benefits of running a web
> proxy cache such as squid. the greater internet can have larger
> packets floating around, and the local proxy of the ISP can deal with
> horrible tcp stacks, retransmissions and client machine with small
> receive buffer sizes.
And imagine having 2 interfaces on this machine, one with MTU=1500 and
one with MTU=576.
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