[67207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Feb 4 18:23:43 2004
In-Reply-To: <ce27c51c8e15c26e283204fbcd279bba@noorgroup.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 00:21:08 +0100
To: hani.mustafa@noorgroup.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 4-feb-04, at 23:46, Hani Mustafa wrote:
> How does a 50Mbyte MTU sound like?
Excessive. The trouble is that you get to throw away much more data for
a single bit error and also that the difference between the average
packet size and the maximum would be huge, so any statically allocated
buffers would essentially be a waste of memory most of the time.
