Re: RINA - scott whaps at the nanog hornets nest :-)

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:32 PM, George Bonser <gbonser () seven com> wrote:
> > I doubt that 1500 is (still) widely used in our Internet... Might be,
> > though, that most of us don't go all the way to 9k.
> >
> > mh
>
> Last week I asked the operator of fairly major public peering points if they supported anything larger than 1500 MTU. 
>  The answer was "no".

There's still a metric buttload of SONET interfaces in the core that
won't go above 4470.

So, you might conceivably get 4k MTU at some point in the future, but
it's really, *really* unlikely you'll get to 9k MTU any time in the next
decade.

Matt