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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Sat Apr 14 19:43:49 2007

> 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.

nice to have smart customers!