[188366] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jakob Heitz (jheitz))
Fri Mar 18 18:21:26 2016
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From: "Jakob Heitz (jheitz)" <jheitz@cisco.com>
To: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:21:20 +0000
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Then it's mainly TCP slowstart that you're trying to improve?
Thanks,
Jakob.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale W. Carder [mailto:dwcarder@wisc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 3:03 PM
> To: Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz@cisco.com>
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?
>=20
> Thus spake Jakob Heitz (jheitz) (jheitz@cisco.com) on Fri, Mar 18, 2016 a=
t 09:29:44PM +0000:
> > What's driving the desire for larger packets?
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Dale
