[188176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Thu Mar 10 11:39:51 2016
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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:38:41 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> However, I stand by my earlier statement that we need to include MTU/MRU
> in ND messages, so that this can be negotiated on a LAN where not all
> devices support large MTU.
this would introduce a degree of network complexity that is unnecessary
and would be prone to problems. It might be nice to have an
auto-configurable maximum frame size per broadcast domain, though.
Nick
