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RE: PMTU-D: remember, your load balancer is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Jun 14 16:03:56 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:00:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
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Then again, at least some Cisco gear doesn't think that.
perdition>sh in g0/1
GigabitEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up
Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 00d0.7966.eeae (bia 00d0.7966.eeae)
MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec, rely 255/255, load 24/255
Deepak Jain
AiNET
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 jhsu@mur.com wrote:
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> : 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?
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> for backbone applications, at least, many hardware vendors support
> large frames [>1500] on GigE.
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> _k
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