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RE: PMTU-D: remember, your load balancer is broken

  • From: jhsu
  • Date: Wed Jun 14 13:46:36 2000 
 : I thought the frame-size limits for Gigabit Ethernet were 64-1518/1522
 : bytes?  And isn't that the limit on most host IP stacks for Ethernet media?
 : Or am I off in left field, here?

for backbone applications, at least, many hardware vendors support
large frames [>1500] on GigE.

_k