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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: jumbo frames
We use it extensively, since all we do is VPNs, and path MTU discovery is broken in too many places. This allows us to carry unfragmented 1500 byte packets inside tunnels. It does mean you have to get all the 10 & 100 Mb ethernet paths out of the picture. FDDI, GigE, ATM, Frame, PPP p2t, token ring (gag #[email protected]) are alternatives. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Mikael Abrahamsson > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: jumbo frames > > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Tony Hain wrote: > > > > > John Fraizer wrote: > > > > > We do on router-router links internally. > > > > Why? > > In case of tunneling it's nice not to have to resort to fragmentation. > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] > >
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