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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

  • From: Bill Stewart
  • Date: Sat Apr 14 19:19:00 2007
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One of my customers comments that he doesn't care about jumbograms of 9K or 4K - what he really wants is to be sure the networks support MTUs of at least 1600-1700 bytes, so that various combinations of IPSEC, UDP-padding, PPPoE, etc. don't break the real 1500-byte packets underneath.