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

  • From: Deepak Jain
  • Date: Wed Jun 14 16:05:11 2000

Then again, at least some Cisco gear doesn't think that.

perdition>sh in g0/1
GigabitEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up
  Hardware is Gigabit Ethernet, address is 00d0.7966.eeae (bia 00d0.7966.eeae)
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 1000000 Kbit, DLY 10 usec, rely 255/255, load 24/255

Deepak Jain
AiNET

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 [email protected] wrote:

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>  : 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
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