Disagree, it is not a common practice. You should make your MTU large enough.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Mack McBride <[email protected]>wrote: > This is very common practice and practically everyone does it. > Usually if you have your own backbone you enlarge the backbone packet size > though. > Sometimes that isn't an option due to provider switches in the path. > > LR Mack McBride > Network Architect > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric A Louie > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 12:56 PM > To: Cisco NSP > Subject: [c-nsp] ip tcp adjust-mss > > I just put in this command on my upstream interfaces to help my mpls > network pass traffic - that is, my effort to eliminate fragmentation in my > backbone. > > Is anyone else using this method of "mtu control"? I need some support - > my CEO is asking why I have to do this, and who else does it, and is it a > common practice, etc, so I'm looking for evidence, more than just "The > Cisco TAC told me to do it". > > thanks > > Much appreciated, Eric > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
