[96044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Sat Apr 14 19:14:49 2007
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:13:57 -0700
From: "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious@gmail.com>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <13AF5522-C17E-497D-AAB2-63A05072E17C@muada.com>
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One of my customers comments that he doesn't care about jumbograms of
9K or 4K - what he really wants is to be sure the networks support
MTUs of at least 1600-1700 bytes, so that various combinations of
IPSEC, UDP-padding, PPPoE, etc. don't break the real 1500-byte packets
underneath.
