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Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too)
From: Darrell Fuhriman <darrell () grumblesmurf net>
Date: 28 May 1998 11:35:02 -0700
Michael Dillon <michael () memra com> writes:
I don't think so. They even said in their article that the technical details are based upon this URL http://www.sns-access.com/%7Enetpro/maxmtu.htm and this guy says stuff like: And, it turns out, depending on how your ISP and other routers encountered on the Internet handle your TCP/IP requests, that a MaxMTU setting of 576, often referred to as the "Internet Standard", will in many cases avoid the fragmentation of packets of data and the slow transfer speeds which result.
He used to be one of my users, at two different ISPs, in fact. I had a long drawn out disagreement about how this was wrong, and mathematically didn't make any sense. However, lots of people have confirmed that it really does help... which leads me to accept Karl's explanation. We shouldn't expect anymore from microsoft, really. Darrell
Current thread:
- PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Vadim Antonov (May 27)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Karl Denninger (May 27)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Dean Robb (May 28)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Matthew Marlowe (May 27)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Michael Dillon (May 27)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) ken emery (May 27)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Vadim Antonov (May 28)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Darrell Fuhriman (May 28)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Richard Irving (May 28)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Forrest W. Christian (May 28)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Michael Dillon (May 27)
- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Karl Denninger (May 27)
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- Re: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Vern Paxson (May 29)
- RE: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Doug Stanfield (May 29)
- RE: PC Bozo's World bites again (CNN, too) Jeff Victor - Sun Microsystems Systems Engineer (May 29)