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Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

From: "Bill Stewart" <nonobvious () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:13:57 -0700


One of my customers comments that he doesn't care about jumbograms of
9K or 4K - what he really wants is to be sure the networks support
MTUs of at least 1600-1700 bytes, so that various combinations of
IPSEC, UDP-padding, PPPoE, etc. don't break the real 1500-byte packets
underneath.

Current thread:

Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet, (continued)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Perry Lorier (Apr 12)
- Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Simon Leinen (Apr 13)
  - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Fred Baker (Apr 13)
    - 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Peter Dambier (Apr 14)
    - Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Marshall Eubanks (Apr 14)
    - Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Petri Helenius (Apr 14)
    - Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Marshall Eubanks (Apr 15)
    - Re: 1500 does not work: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Petri Helenius (Apr 15)
    - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Douglas Otis (Apr 14)
    - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 14)
    - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Bill Stewart (Apr 14)
    - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Randy Bush (Apr 14)
    - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Stephen Sprunk (Apr 14)
    - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Douglas Otis (Apr 14)
  - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Joe Greco (Apr 13)
  - Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Joe Maimon (Apr 14)
- RE: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet Neil J. McRae (Apr 13)