On 11/02/2013 21:44, Aaron wrote: > Disagree, it is not a common practice. > You should make your MTU large enough.
practically everyone who has the option and a modicum of common sense does this. There's no reason to make your core MTU small and constrain yourself packet overhead limitations when it's a tiny amount of effort to make it large on day 1. Nick > 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/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
