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Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:38:41 +0000

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
However, I stand by my earlier statement that we need to include MTU/MRU
in ND messages, so that this can be negotiated on a LAN where not all
devices support large MTU.

this would introduce a degree of network complexity that is unnecessary
and would be prone to problems.  It might be nice to have an
auto-configurable maximum frame size per broadcast domain, though.

Nick



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