[155948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MTU mismatch on one link
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Bartsch)
Fri Aug 31 11:14:27 2012
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1208311045160.1333@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:13:41 -0500
From: Ben Bartsch <uwcableguy@gmail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
mturoute.exe works great
http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/mturoute.php
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org
> wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Andrew K. wrote:
>
> Besides routing protocol convergence is there any service issues with
>> running mismatched MTU? Assuming the packet flow does not exceed the
>> smallest MTU value.
>>
>
> Not really, but given the bursty nature of IP traffic, that's a very
> dubious assumption.
>
> In other words, you _can_ do it, but it's not a good idea, and can end up
> making lots of extra headaches for you/whoever supports this setup.
>
> jms
>
>
