[95999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Fri Apr 13 01:26:50 2007
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:22:49 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku+nanog@ytti.fi>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <461EF241.2090700@satchell.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On (2007-04-12 20:00 -0700), Stephen Satchell wrote:
> From a practical side, the cost of developing, qualifying, and selling
> new chipsets to handle jumbo packets would jack up the cost of inside
> equipment. What is the payback? How much money do you save going to
> jumbo packets?
It's rather hard to find ethernet gear operators could imagine using in
peering or core that do not support +9k MTU's.
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