Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

Bill Stewart nonobvious at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 23:13:57 UTC 2007


One of my customers comments that he doesn't care about jumbograms of
9K or 4K - what he really wants is to be sure the networks support
MTUs of at least 1600-1700 bytes, so that various combinations of
IPSEC, UDP-padding, PPPoE, etc. don't break the real 1500-byte packets
underneath.



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