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Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Wed Feb 04 18:25:58 2004 
On 4-feb-04, at 23:46, Hani Mustafa wrote:


How does a 50Mbyte MTU sound like?
Excessive. The trouble is that you get to throw away much more data for a single bit error and also that the difference between the average packet size and the maximum would be huge, so any statically allocated buffers would essentially be a waste of memory most of the time.