Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.

[brett watson <bwatson () mibh net>]

> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>
> > At 22:46 16/06/00 , Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> > >  The common number that all
> > > those using jumbo frames should support is 9000 bytes (not 9k aka 9216).
> >
> > Disagree, for the reasons described in RFC-1626.  The IP MTU 
> > described in RFC-1626 has a number of advantages for hosts
> > using TCP, whether or not NFS is in use.
>
> That came out wrong, my point was that the number on all jumbo frame
> implementations should be no lower then 9000 bytes, not that this is the
> best possible number. Optimizing for NFS seems to be one of the lowest
> considerations on the list of important things though. :P

aren't two "well known" router vendors only supporting 8192 bytes?

-b