[95961] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Apr 12 10:17:27 2007
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:12:43 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20070412132649.1C1CC766653@berkshire.machshav.com> (Steven
M. Bellovin's message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:26:48 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Steven M. Bellovin:
> A few years ago, the IETF was considering various jumbogram options.
> As best I recall, that was the official response from the relevant
> IEEE folks: "no". They're concerned with backward compatibility.
Gigabit ethernet has already broken backwards compatibility and is
essentially point-to-point, so the old compatibility concerns no
longer apply. Jumbo frame opt-in could even be controlled with a
protocol above layer 2.
