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Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 01:44:07 +0100
* nanog () nanog org (Kurt Kraut via NANOG) [Thu 10 Mar 2016, 00:59 CET]:
I'm pretty confident there is no need for a specific MTU consensus and not all IXP participants are obligated to raise their interface MTU if the IXP starts allowing jumbo frames.
You're wrong here. The IXP switch platform cannot send ICMP Packet Too Big messages. That's why everybody must agree on one MTU.
So we have Tier-1 backbones moving jumbo frames around continents, why in a controlled L2 enviroment that usually resides in a single building and managed by a single controller having jumbo frames is that concerning?
Because the L3 devices connected to it aren't controlled by a single entity. -- Niels.
Current thread:
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?, (continued)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Nick Hilliard (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? William Herrin (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? joel jaeggli (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Joel Maslak (Mar 10)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Mark Andrews (Mar 12)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Kurt Kraut via NANOG (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Niels Bakker (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Tassos Chatzithomaoglou (Mar 09)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Frank Habicht (Mar 12)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Chris Woodfield (Mar 17)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Nikolay Shopik (Mar 17)
- Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames? Baldur Norddahl (Mar 17)