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Re: exchange point media (was: Re: MAE-EAST Moving? ...)

  • From: Jeff Haas
  • Date: Thu Jun 15 10:55:00 2000

On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:46:09PM -0700, Bora Akyol wrote:
> 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.

Please be aware that any traffic passing through FDDI XP's using
DEC gigaswitches is biased.  These switches break path mtu discovery.

It wouldn't surprise me if this issue is just another item keeping
the Internet MTU low.

> Bora

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