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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Thu Apr 12 14:35:38 2007 
> A few years ago, the IETF was considering various jumbogram options.
> As best I recall, that was the official response from the relevant
> IEEE folks: "no". They're concerned with backward compatibility.

worse.  they felt that the ether checksum is good at 1500 and not
so good at 4k etc.  they *really* did not want to do jumbo.  i
worked that doc.

randy