[29227] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: exchange point media (was: Re: MAE-EAST Moving? ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Wed Jun 14 23:16:31 2000
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:35:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@netrail.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 dhudes@hudes.org wrote:
>
> > Isn't the push to MAE-ATM ?
>
> Are there any other suggestions, other than ATM?
[snip]
> Gigabit ethernet sounds nice but the MTU of 1500 is really restricting
> that technology.
While there are certainly shortcomings to using GbE as a public exchange
infrastructure, I fail to see how a 1500 byte MTU has anything to do with
it. In every network I have ever seen, there have very, very rarely been
any packets larger than 1500 bytes.
The only case that I can think of where that becomes important is in a
MPLS exhange model where adding the label to large packets would cause
fragmentation or broken TCP sessions for the PMTUD challenged.
Brandon Ross 404-522-5400
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