Re: Reopening jumbo frames in IS-IS

[Bob Hinden <bob.hinden at nokia.com>]

Radia,

> What are the technical reasons that IEEE does not like large packets?

I can't speak for IEEE, but I have always thought that one of there reasons 
that Ethernet has been so successful is that that IEEE tried very hard to 
insure backward compatibility between the different versions.  It made it 
easier to bridge between 10M/100M/1G/10G/etc. versions, new versions didn't 
break any protocols that ran over Ethernet, and it is easier to build NICs 
that supported a range of variants.

It also avoided having to build things like a FDDI/Ethernet bridge I once 
heard about that supported IP fragmentation.  I bet you remember that :-)

Bob