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Richard Irving wrote: > > Paul D. Robertson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Adam Hersh wrote: > > > > > With all of the problems with MAE-EAST..... > > > > > > Any plans from anyone to create a ATM exchange point in the DC area? > > > > Given the latency we've seen over some ATM backbones, I certainly hope not. I > > agree with Paul that MTU sizes in gigabit ethernet make it very > > attractive as a next step, Our nets *Scream*. > > I'd certainly be interested in seeing anything > > anyone has on fragmentation related delays going from a large MTU switched > > environment to a small MTU switched environment though. Overall, I've > > been less-than-pleased with latency when I've been transited that way. > > Uh... Doctor , it hurts when I do this. Doctor: So don't do that! Hint, it is *pretty* foolish to run mixed MTU's on switched fabric. *Most* people on ATM exchanges run with common MTU's. > > Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Paul D. Robertson > > [email protected]
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