[96054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Sun Apr 15 01:53:32 2007
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:49:45 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Cc: peter@peter-dambier.de, NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <D12B86AD-EB50-453A-899C-B687730E133A@multicasttech.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
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> I advise people doing streaming to not use MTU's larger than ~1450 for
> these sorts of reasons.
The unfortunate side-effect of that is that most prominent streaming
apps (don't know about Youtube though) then send fragmented UDP packets
which leads to reassembly overhead and in case of lost packets, a
significantly larger lost data than neccessary.
Pete
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> Regards
> Marshall
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