[15190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU of the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Masto)
Mon Feb 9 17:14:47 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 14:13:12 -0500
From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <MAPI.Id.0016.006c746f6f6c65793030303830303038@MAPI.to.RFC822>; from Douglas Tooley on Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 08:56:33AM -0800
On Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 08:56:33AM -0800, Douglas Tooley wrote:
>
> > > Smells like a marketing opportunity.
> >
> > What, marketing a replacement stack? (you really should quote, BTW)
> >
> > No, because the _users_ don't know enough better to care. It's the
> > _net_ that suffers.
> >
>
> Actually I think there is a fair bit of awareness among the "users" out
> there - at least among those that are actually changing their MTU's...
I recently discovered that some of my customers have been led to
believe that they should employ a program called "Turbo MTU" (or some
such), which apparently has knobs for every tiny detail of Windows
95's TCP/IP stack. Since these are often the same type of customers
who simply change every setting they can at random, I should not be
suprised that they encounter performance problems.
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Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>
Director of Operations, NetMonger Communications, Inc.
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