[30137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC 1918
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Fraizer)
Sun Jul 16 17:06:56 2000
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:04:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Fraizer <nanog@EnterZone.Net>
To: Bennett Todd <bet@rahul.net>
Cc: North America Network Operators Group Mailing List <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000716122939.C578@oven.com>
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On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
> 2000-07-14-20:06:30 Shawn McMahon:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:42:08PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > > Unfortunately an increasing number of Internet users, with servers I
> > > might add, are now behind DSL lines that have <1500-byte MTUs.....
> > [...]
> > So what are we going to do, folks; are we going to react to people
> > who are in this situation by saying "oh, well; guess I'm walled
> > off from you, too bad, so sad, dump that $50 connection and get a
> > T1 or get off my Internet", or are we going to adapt?
>
> What kind of adaptation is necessary?
>
> Traditionally that sort of thing hasn't been a problem; that's what
> fragmentation is for.
>
Bennett,
We're talking about providers-of-the-masses being the direct upstream of
these devices. They are more likely to do something less than 35:1
oversubscription than they are to deploy routers with the horsepower to
fragment for every one of their customers.
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
