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Re: MAE-EAST Moving? from Tysons corner to reston VA.
- From: brett watson
- Date: Sun Jun 18 02:21:20 2000
>
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, RJ Atkinson wrote:
>
> > At 22:46 16/06/00 , Richard A. Steenbergen wrote:
> > > The common number that all
> > >those using jumbo frames should support is 9000 bytes (not 9k aka 9216).
> >
> > Disagree, for the reasons described in RFC-1626. The IP MTU
> > described in RFC-1626 has a number of advantages for hosts
> > using TCP, whether or not NFS is in use.
>
> That came out wrong, my point was that the number on all jumbo frame
> implementations should be no lower then 9000 bytes, not that this is the
> best possible number. Optimizing for NFS seems to be one of the lowest
> considerations on the list of important things though. :P
aren't two "well known" router vendors only supporting 8192 bytes?
-b
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