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RE: MTU of the Internet?
From: Peter Ford <peterf () microsoft com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 20:53:31 -0800
There are other techniques such as split-TCP and Snoop that can be applied in place of a POP based Web cache. On the other hand, RAS/NAS servers that are under-buffered are not part of the solution space. trenchingly yours, peter
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Howard [SMTP:phil () charon milepost com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 1998 7:32 PM To: ltd () interlink com au Cc: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: MTU of the Internet?perhaps this is one of the not-so-obvious benefits of running a web proxy cache such as squid. the greater internet can have larger packets floating around, and the local proxy of the ISP can deal with horrible tcp stacks, retransmissions and client machine with small receive buffer sizes.And imagine having 2 interfaces on this machine, one with MTU=1500 and one with MTU=576. -- Phil Howard | no33ads4 () dumb5ads org ads6suck () dumb2ads org stop3it7 () spammer9 com phil | no0way72 () lame7ads net die8spam () no99ads1 net eat7this () anyplace com at | w5x8y4z5 () anyplace com stop2it1 () spammer0 com a9b0c8d8 () noplace4 com milepost | die6spam () noplace8 com end6it79 () no2place com a5b0c5d3 () s0p8a2m1 edu dot | crash053 () anyplace org crash981 () spam6mer com end8it77 () dumbads7 org com | no20ads6 () anyplace org stop6221 () dumb3ads com ads9suck () no7place net
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- Re: MTU of the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Patrick McManus (Feb 09)
- HTTP proxy servers (was Re: MTU of the Internet?) Matt Ranney (Feb 12)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jay R. Ashworth (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Mike Hedlund (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Mike Hedlund (Feb 09)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jay R. Ashworth (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Dean Gaudet (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Henry Linneweh (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Paul A Vixie (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Paul A Vixie (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Sean M. Doran (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Frank Kastenholz (Feb 09)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Frank Kastenholz (Feb 09)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Steven L. Johnson (Feb 09)