[67155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Tue Feb 3 14:17:51 2004
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:13:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <401FEB16.5030903@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Why large MTU then? Most modern ethernet controllers don=B4t care if you=
=B4re
> sending 1500 or 9000 byte packets. (with proper drivers taking advantage =
of
> the features there) If you=B4re paying for 40 byte packets anyway, there =
is no
> incentive to ever go beyond 1500 byte MTU.
I think its partially due to removal of overhead and improvements you get o=
ut of=20
TCP (bearing in mind it uses windowing and slow start)
Bit of data on this link that i googled up,=20
http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/monitoring/bulk/10ge/20030303/tests.html
