Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

Thu Apr 12 12:58:30 UTC 2007

* swmike at 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?

(My money's on "as close to 0 to not really matter")

	-- Niels.