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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Hankins)
Thu Apr 12 18:38:44 2007

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:31:52 -0700
From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070412181425.067eca58@senie.com>
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:18:56PM -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
> Neither addresses interoperability on a multi-access medium where a=20
> new station could be introduced, and can result in the same MTU/MRU=20
> mismatch problems that were seen on token ring and FDDI.

Solving Ilijitsch's "#1" is a separate problem, and you can solve
them in isolation.  If you chose to do so, "#2" is already solved
for all hosts where dynamic configuration is desirable.

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David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.	-- Jack T. Hankins

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