Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

Thu Apr 12 15:52:25 UTC 2007

Niels Bakker wrote:
> 
> * 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?

How much l2 vpn traffic is being exchanged across the public internet?

(my money is on a lot)

> (My money's on "as close to 0 to not really matter")
> 
> 
>     -- Niels.
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