[95968] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Apr 12 12:09:59 2007
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:52:25 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070412125830.GS2407@burnout.tpb.net>
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Niels Bakker wrote:
>
> * swmike@swm.pp.se (Mikael Abrahamsson) [Thu 12 Apr 2007, 14:07 CEST]:
>> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Saku Ytti wrote:
>>> IXP peeps, why are you not offering high MTU VLAN option?
>> Biggest benefit would be if the transport network people run PPPoE and
>> other tunneled traffic over, would allow for whatever MTU needed to
>> carry unfragmented 1500 byte tunneled packets, so we could assure that
>> all hosts on the internet actually have 1500 IP MTU transparently.
>
> How much traffic from DSLAM to service provider is currently being
> exchanged across IXPs?
How much l2 vpn traffic is being exchanged across the public internet?
(my money is on a lot)
> (My money's on "as close to 0 to not really matter")
>
>
> -- Niels.
>
