[95978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Apr 12 14:29:42 2007
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:15:15 -1000
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>,
NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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.
worse. they felt that the ether checksum is good at 1500 and not
so good at 4k etc. they *really* did not want to do jumbo. i
worked that doc.
randy
