[29180] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: PMTU-D: remember, your load balancer is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jhsu@mur.com)
Wed Jun 14 13:45:42 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:42:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: jhsu@mur.com
Message-Id: <200006141742.NAA03736@rathe.mur.com>
To: marcs@znep.com, rdobbins@netmore.net, rmeyer@mhsc.com,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
: I thought the frame-size limits for Gigabit Ethernet were 64-1518/1522
: bytes? And isn't that the limit on most host IP stacks for Ethernet media?
: Or am I off in left field, here?
for backbone applications, at least, many hardware vendors support
large frames [>1500] on GigE.
_k
