Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?

Wed Mar 9 19:37:06 UTC 2016

Saku Ytti wrote:
>
> If customer does not react, put it on quarantine VLAN. This can be
> automated too. Wrong MTU => open internal case, contact customers
> email, no customer response in N days, quarantine VLAN.
>
> Even the most outrageous success stories in the world, majority of the
> people would have said before attempting that it won't work, because
> that is safe and easy. And usually they are right, most things don't
> work, but it's very difficult to actually know without trying what
> works and what does.
> Luckily we have actual IXPs running big and small VLAN MTUs, even
> without this monitoring capability, and it Internet still works.
>
Imo, there is not enough value for an IXP to do such monitoring,
especially assuming we agree
on Richard Steenbergen's conclusion in his presentation.

Promoting that kind of monitoring  as a differentiator will surely help
adding an extra bullet
point on marketing material, but will be a trivial part in the decision
process of a potential customer.

--Aris