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RE: MTU of the Internet?

  • From: Peter Ford
  • Date: Sat Feb 07 00:14:52 1998 
There are other techniques such as split-TCP and Snoop that can be applied
in place of a POP based Web cache.  

On the other hand, RAS/NAS servers that are under-buffered are not part of
the solution space.

trenchingly yours,

peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Phil Howard [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Friday, February 06, 1998 7:32 PM
> To:	[email protected]
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> Subject:	Re: MTU of the Internet?
> 
> > perhaps this is one of the not-so-obvious benefits of running a web
> > proxy cache such as squid.  the greater internet can have larger
> > packets floating around, and the local proxy of the ISP can deal with
> > horrible tcp stacks, retransmissions and client machine with small
> > receive buffer sizes.
> 
> And imagine having 2 interfaces on this machine, one with MTU=1500 and
> one with MTU=576.
> 
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