[96046] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Apr 14 19:42:25 2007
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:35:50 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <18a5e7cb0704141613h3c2d1178j8f2ad6eafe9ae806@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> 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.
nice to have smart customers!
