[95980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Apr 12 14:54:48 2007
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:51:28 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <D0D0330CBD07114D85B70B784E80C2F2015444D9@exch-mail2.win.slac.stanford.edu>
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>> 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.
>
> As I remember it, the IEEE did not say "no"
i was in the middle of this one. they said "no." the checksum becomes
much weaker at 4k and 9k. and ether does have errors.
randy
