Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?

Fri Mar 18 22:21:20 UTC 2016

Then it's mainly TCP slowstart that you're trying to improve?

Thanks,
Jakob.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale W. Carder [mailto:dwcarder at wisc.edu]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 3:03 PM
> To: Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jheitz at cisco.com>
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?
> 
> Thus spake Jakob Heitz (jheitz) (jheitz at cisco.com) on Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 09:29:44PM +0000:
> > What's driving the desire for larger packets?
> 
> In our little corner of the internet, it is to increase the performance
> of a low number of high-bdp flows which are typically dataset transfers.
> All of our non-commercial peers support 9k.
> 
> Dale