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Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Sun Apr 15 01:55:29 2007

Marshall Eubanks wrote:

I advise people doing streaming to not use MTU's larger than ~1450 for these sorts of reasons.
The unfortunate side-effect of that is that most prominent streaming apps (don't know about Youtube though) then send fragmented UDP packets which leads to reassembly overhead and in case of lost packets, a significantly larger lost data than neccessary.

Pete



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Marshall

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