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MTU of the Internet?
From: Peter Ford <peterf () microsoft com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 21:57:23 -0800
Several people have noted to the Microsoft Support and Product groups that they want the Windows 95 PPP MTU to be set to 576 (down from 1500). this change is in Windows 98. The reason for this change cited by many customers is that many ISPs have 576 MTUs set "inside" their networks and packets get fragmented. How prevelant is this fragmentation and how prevelant is this MTU in ISPs? Are there statistics that can be shared on how much traffic they see on their networks that are IP fragments? Why do ISPs set their MTUs to 576 instead of ~1500 or even ~4K? thanks in advance for your responses, peter
Current thread:
- MTU of the Internet? Peter Ford (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Perry E. Metzger (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Forrest W. Christian (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Tony Torzillo (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Dirk Harms-Merbitz (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Bradley Reynolds (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Dave Siegel (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Forrest W. Christian (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Robert E. Seastrom (Feb 04)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Jay R. Ashworth (Feb 04)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Tony Li (Feb 05)
- Re: MTU of the Internet? Stephen Wolff (Feb 05)
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- Re: MTU of the Internet? Perry E. Metzger (Feb 04)