Re: "RFC 2461bis" issue: MTU handling

[Fred Templin <ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com>]

Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> [...]
>  
> > See http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/net/jumbo/ for some links 
> > surrounding this issue.
> >    
> Yes, and...?
>
> Even if you don't want a separate physical infrastructure, defining a VLAN
> is trivial.
Where the L2 supports that capability and operators know how to
configure it, perhaps. Everywhere else, we still have legacy L2
infrastructures to deal with.

> Really, I can't see all that many scenarios where you'd deploy multiple 
> nodes on a link with different MTU values and the internal traffic would 
> be so high that optimizing the MTU used between these would be worth 
> optimizing..
I have given two good examples.

Fred
ftemplin@iprg.nokia.com


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