Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

Fri Apr 13 05:22:49 UTC 2007

On (2007-04-12 20:00 -0700), Stephen Satchell wrote:

> From a practical side, the cost of developing, qualifying, and selling 
> new chipsets to handle jumbo packets would jack up the cost of inside 
> equipment.  What is the payback?  How much money do you save going to 
> jumbo packets?

It's rather hard to find ethernet gear operators could imagine using in
peering or core that do not support +9k MTU's.

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