RE: MTU of the Internet?

[Peter Ford <peterf () microsoft com>]

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.
>
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