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Has anyone seen a percentage of traffic that is statistically significant for MTU's higher than 1500. Stats that I see pretty much show 99% of traffic below 1500. Bora ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Ross" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 7:35 PM Subject: Re: exchange point media (was: Re: MAE-EAST Moving? ...) > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Isn't the push to MAE-ATM ? > > > > Are there any other suggestions, other than ATM? > > [snip] > > > Gigabit ethernet sounds nice but the MTU of 1500 is really restricting > > that technology. > > While there are certainly shortcomings to using GbE as a public exchange > infrastructure, I fail to see how a 1500 byte MTU has anything to do with > it. In every network I have ever seen, there have very, very rarely been > any packets larger than 1500 bytes. > > The only case that I can think of where that becomes important is in a > MPLS exhange model where adding the label to large packets would cause > fragmentation or broken TCP sessions for the PMTUD challenged. > > Brandon Ross 404-522-5400 > VP Engineering, NetRail http://www.netrail.net > AIM: BrandonNR ICQ: 2269442 > Read RFC 2644! > Stop Smurf attacks! Configure your router interfaces to block directed > broadcasts. See http://www.quadrunner.com/~chuegen/smurf.cgi for details. > >
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