MTU

Grzegorz Janoszka Grzegorz at Janoszka.pl
Fri Jul 22 17:37:17 UTC 2016


On 2016-07-22 15:57, William Herrin wrote:
> On a link containing only routers, you can safely increase the MTU to
> any mutually agreed value with these caveats:

What I noticed a few years ago was that BGP convergence time was faster 
with higher MTU.
Full BGP table load took twice less time on MTU 9192 than on 1500.
Of course BGP has to be allowed to use higher MTU.

Anyone else observed something similar?

-- 
Grzegorz Janoszka



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