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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:24:26 +0800
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007, Steve Meuse wrote:
On 4/13/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:For that matter, what releases of Windows support setting a 9K MTU? That's probably the *real* uptake limiter.Most, if not all. I have an XP box that has a GigE with 9k MTU.
Lucky you. The definition of "large frames" varies depending entirely upon driver. I came up against this when a client nicely asked about jumbo frames on his shiny new Cisco 3560 switch - and none of his computers could agree on anything greater than 4k. And, to make things worse - a few of the drivers wanted to enforce certain values rather than any value between 1500 and an upper limit - making the whole feat impossible. Yay for non-clear specifications. The skeptic in me says "ain't going to happen." The believer in me says "Ah, that'd be cool, wouldn't it?" The realist in me says "probably best to mandate that kind of stuff with the next revision of the ipv6-internet with the first few bits set to 010 instead of 001. :) The real uptake limiter is the disagreement on implementation. Some of you have to remember how this whole internet thing started and grew (I've only read about the collaboration in books.) Adrian
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- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Randy Bush (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Stephen Satchell (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Saku Ytti (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 13)
- RE: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Leigh Porter (Apr 13)
- RE: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 13)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Stephen Sprunk (Apr 13)
- RE: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Lasher, Donn (Apr 13)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Stephen Sprunk (Apr 13)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Steve Meuse (Apr 13)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Adrian Chadd (Apr 13)
- RE: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet michael.dillon (Apr 13)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Stephen Wilcox (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Joe Loiacono (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Joe Loiacono (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Joe Loiacono (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Daniel Senie (Apr 12)