[2812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-exchange media types
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Fri May 3 11:47:42 1996
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 11:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jerry@fc.net, ipasha@sprintlink.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605031003.MAA16279@vader.runit.sintef.no> from "Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no" at May 3, 96 12:03:26 pm
> smaller packets than they otherwise could. Some hosts get
> noticeably higher performance when they are able to use FDDI-
> sized packets compared to Ethernet-sized packets, and restricting
> the packet size to 1500 bytes will put a limit on the maximum
Some hard figures on this would be interesting. Ie, % of packets
with > 1500 MTU, % performance degradation if fragmented, etc. I
suspect that other backbone design issues (like congestion)
dominate any fragmentation issue.
I'm not sure a few people trying to get a little extra throughput
should dictate the design of a NAP (unless they want to pay for it).
