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Re: [RRG] Re: [RAM] Tunneling overheads and fragmentation

So there is no way our network could run on a MTU of 4470 or even
higher any time soon.


Then you don't deploy ITRs or you deploy fragmenting-ITRs.

[..]
In practice, this is not really a problem. Hosts typically do not
originate IP packets larger than 1500 bytes. And second, a survey
has been taken (from a list of ISPs, see Acknowledgement section)
where nearly all ISP link MTUs are either 4470 bytes or support
Ethernet jumbo frames of 9000 bytes. Therefore, we don't anticipate
any problems with prepending additional headers.

This is handwaving, and not a good basis for research work.

You are right, we are trying to make a decision and are doing engineering now past the research stage. ;-)

Dino



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