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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet


From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins () isc org>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:31:52 -0700

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:18:56PM -0400, Daniel Senie wrote:
Neither addresses interoperability on a multi-access medium where a 
new station could be introduced, and can result in the same MTU/MRU 
mismatch problems that were seen on token ring and FDDI.

Solving Ilijitsch's "#1" is a separate problem, and you can solve
them in isolation.  If you chose to do so, "#2" is already solved
for all hosts where dynamic configuration is desirable.

-- 
David W. Hankins        "If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer               you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.       -- Jack T. Hankins

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