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RE: Jumbo frames

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Wed Mar 28 00:47:23 2007

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:46:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
To: michael.dillon@bt.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B01AAC5C@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
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> Use GigE cards on the servers with a jumbo MTU and only buy IP network
> access from a service provider who supports jumbo MTUs end-to-end
> through their network.

To check MTU on transit paths, try mturoute:
http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/mturoute.php

As well as the MTU eye-chart:
http://www.elifulkerson.com/projects/mtu-eyechart.php

-Hank Nussbacher
http://www.interall.co.il

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