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RE: MTU of the Internet?
From: Tony Hain <tonyhain () microsoft com>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:50:31 -0800
This thread has drifted all over the place and the only conclusions I can see are: The core infrastructure MTU is >= 1500 People are telling clients to set their Win95 MTU to 576 PMTU is randomly broken by clueless filtering Some dial-access devices are buffer limited A small MTU (53 byte?) would increase perceived response at the expense of performance I have been an advocate of the bigger defaults is better camp, but there is a real concern that the wrong values could actually cause more damage than their gain is worth. If the above list is incorrect or incomplete it would be useful for people to constructively tell Peter that now.
Current thread:
- Re: MTU of the Internet?, (continued)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 09)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Patrick W. Gilmore (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Mark Boolootian (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Lincoln Dale (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Dorian R. Kim (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Kent W. England (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Per Gregers Bilse (Feb 06)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? George Swallow (Feb 06)
- RE: MTU of the Internet? Tony Hain (Feb 06)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jay R. Ashworth (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? Phil Howard (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Paul A Vixie (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Phil Howard (Feb 07)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Perry E. Metzger (Feb 08)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Frank Kastenholz (Feb 09)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jay R. Ashworth (Feb 09)
- Message not available
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Marc Slemko (Feb 07)