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Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Mar 9 11:02:30 2016

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:00:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <56E0469F.7000004@foobar.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> interface MTU configured to be 9000 bytes, the packet will be
> blackholed, not rejected with a PTB.

That is only true if the router/host sets MRU=MTU. That is definitely not 
always the case.


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