Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On 4-feb-04, at 23:46, Hani Mustafa wrote:

> How does a 50Mbyte MTU sound like?

Excessive. The trouble is that you get to throw away much more data for 
a single bit error and also that the difference between the average 
packet size and the maximum would be huge, so any statically allocated 
buffers would essentially be a waste of memory most of the time.