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Re: MTU of the Internet?

  • From: Steven L. Johnson
  • Date: Mon Feb 09 12:24:24 1998 
At 05:46 PM 2/7/98 GMT, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>I hate to extend this thread any, but there is too much misinformation
>to let slide....
[...]
>As to the proposal that the big packets could be sliced and diced to
>allow a smaller interactive packet thru -- well, the PPP fragmentation
>header has been out there for years, but nobody really implements it,
>even for multi-link.  Too much pain, not enough gain.  Same problems as
>ATM.

I've heard of people configuring only one link within a MLPPP bundle
and saying that it helps in some cases.

http://www/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios113ed/113ed_cr/dial_c/dcpr
t2/dcppp.htm#xtocid35927

-Steve