Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Niels Bakker wrote:

> * pete () he iki fi (Petri Helenius) [Tue 03 Feb 2004, 15:42 CET]:
>  
>
> > Me wonders why people ask for 40 byte packets at linerate if the mtu
> > is supposedly larger?
> >    
>
> Support for the worst-case scenario.  Same why you spec support for
> a BIGINT-line ACL without excessive impact on forwarding capacity.
>
>  
Why large MTU then? Most modern ethernet controllers don´t care if 
you´re sending
1500 or 9000 byte packets. (with proper drivers taking advantage of the 
features there)
If you´re paying for 40 byte packets anyway, there is no incentive to 
ever go beyond 1500
byte MTU.

Pete