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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins () isc org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:28:28 -0700
Hopefully I'll be forgiven for geeking out over DHCP on nanog-l twice in the same week. On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:20:18AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
1. It's no longer necessary to limit the subnet MTU to that of the least capable system
I dunno for that.
2. It's no longer necessary to manage 1500 byte+ MTUs manually
But for this, there has been (for a long time now) a DHCPv4 option to give a client its MTU for the interface being configured (#26, RFC2132). The thing is, not very many (if any) clients actually request it. Possibly because of problem #1 (if you change your MTU, and no one else does, you're hosed). So, if you solve for the first problem in isolation, you can easily just use DHCP to solve the second with virtually no work and probably "only" (heh) client software updates. I could also note that your first problem plagues DHCP software today...it's further complicated...let's just say it sucks, and bad. If one were to solve that problem for DHCP speakers, you could probably put a siphon somewhere in the process. But it's an even harder problem to solve. -- David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time, Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again." Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
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- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Stephen Wilcox (Apr 12)
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- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Joe Loiacono (Apr 12)
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- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet David W. Hankins (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Daniel Senie (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet David W. Hankins (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Fred Baker (Apr 13)
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- Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Marshall Eubanks (Apr 14)
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