[15167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven L. Johnson)
Mon Feb 9 12:21:04 1998
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 22:16:47 -0800
To: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Steven L. Johnson" <stjohnso@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <7000.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
At 05:46 PM 2/7/98 GMT, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>I hate to extend this thread any, but there is too much misinformation
>to let slide....
[...]
>As to the proposal that the big packets could be sliced and diced to
>allow a smaller interactive packet thru -- well, the PPP fragmentation
>header has been out there for years, but nobody really implements it,
>even for multi-link. Too much pain, not enough gain. Same problems as
>ATM.
I've heard of people configuring only one link within a MLPPP bundle
and saying that it helps in some cases.
http://www/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113ed_cr/dial_c/dcpr
t2/dcppp.htm#xtocid35927
-Steve
