MTU of the Internet?
Matthew Petach
mpetach at netflight.com
Thu Feb 5 09:16:50 UTC 1998
>
> Several people have noted to the Microsoft Support and Product groups that
> they want the Windows 95 PPP MTU to be set to 576 (down from 1500). this
> change is in Windows 98.
Wrong direction.
> The reason for this change cited by many customers is that many ISPs have
> 576 MTUs set "inside" their networks and packets get fragmented.
Nope.
> How prevelant is this fragmentation and how prevelant is this MTU in ISPs?
It's not. Quite frankly, I like the 9127 used by Alteon switches
and NICs within our network.
> Why do ISPs set their MTUs to 576 instead of ~1500 or even ~4K?
We don't. In fact, we like the MTUs as high as possible, hence
the choice of Alteon, with jumbo frames.
> thanks in advance for your responses,
> peter
You're welcome! Please take this feedback, and adjust Win2000
accordingly... :-)
Thanks!
Matt
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