Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

Niels Bakker wrote:
> * swmike () swm pp se (Mikael Abrahamsson) [Thu 12 Apr 2007, 14:07 CEST]:
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Saku Ytti wrote:
> > > IXP peeps, why are you not offering high MTU VLAN option?
> > Biggest benefit would be if the transport network people run PPPoE and
> > other tunneled traffic over, would allow for whatever MTU needed to
> > carry unfragmented 1500 byte tunneled packets, so we could assure that
> > all hosts on the internet actually have 1500 IP MTU transparently.
>
> How much traffic from DSLAM to service provider is currently being
> exchanged across IXPs?

How much l2 vpn traffic is being exchanged across the public internet?

(my money is on a lot)

> (My money's on "as close to 0 to not really matter")
>
>
>     -- Niels.