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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:05:54 -0400
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:12:43 +0200 Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote:
* Steven M. Bellovin:A few years ago, the IETF was considering various jumbogram options. As best I recall, that was the official response from the relevant IEEE folks: "no". They're concerned with backward compatibility.Gigabit ethernet has already broken backwards compatibility and is essentially point-to-point, so the old compatibility concerns no longer apply. Jumbo frame opt-in could even be controlled with a protocol above layer 2.
I'm neither attacking nor defending the idea; I'm merely reporting. I'll also note that the IETF is very unlikely to challenge IEEE on this. There's an informal agreement on who owns which standards. The IETF resents attempts at modifications to its standards by other standards bodies; by the same token, it tries to avoid doing that to others. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Saku Ytti (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Saku Ytti (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Gian Constantine (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Saku Ytti (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Warren Kumari (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Will Hargrave (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Saku Ytti (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Florian Weimer (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Florian Weimer (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Randy Bush (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Randy Bush (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Randy Bush (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Saku Ytti (Apr 12)