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Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Wed Mar 9 15:28:06 2016

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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On all platforms I've configured and connected to an IXP, they would all
> be configured by setting max L2 MTU on the main interface, and then you
> configure whatever needed IPv4 and IPv6 L3 MTU on the subinterface.

iirc, we had problems with a bunch of ios based platforms.  It worked
fine on junos / xr platforms.  I share your surprise that this could
even have caused a problem, but it did.

Nick

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