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Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale W. Carder)
Fri Mar 18 18:02:55 2016

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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:02:48 -0500
From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu>
To: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>
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Thus spake Jakob Heitz (jheitz) (jheitz@cisco.com) on Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:29:44PM +0000:
> What's driving the desire for larger packets?

In our little corner of the internet, it is to increase the performance
of a low number of high-bdp flows which are typically dataset transfers.
All of our non-commercial peers support 9k.  

Dale

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