[188152] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Thu Mar 10 01:30:02 2016
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To: Tassos Chatzithomaoglou <achatz@forthnet.gr>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 08:29:52 +0200
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On 10/Mar/16 00:22, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou wrote:
> I must be missing something very obvious here, because i cannot think of any reason why an IXP shouldn't enable the maximum possible MTU on its infrastructure to be available to its customers. Then it's clearly customers' decision on what MTU to use on their devices, as long as:
>
> * It fits inside IXP's MTU
> * It suits with any other customer's (exchanging traffic with) MTU
This is a valid point.
Mark.
