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At 04:42 PM 2/5/98 , Charles Sprickman wrote: > >We have a choice of FDDI or 100Mb ethernet. I'm thinking FDDI is better, >and not too much more expensive for our side. Are there any negatives >with FDDI? How does the 4000(?) Byte MTU affect things? All of our >outgoing links, T1 and ether are all 1500. Does the work of fragmenting >the packets down to 1500 amount to anything? There is work on creating "jumbo" frames for GbE which would take away the 1500 "cell" limit. >All this talk about MTUs has got me wondering. > Why on earth are you paying attention to that thread?? --Kent
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