Must a difference in worlds. I'm coming from Tier 1 ISP. Enterprise, yes I see your point.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Mack McBride <mack.mcbr...@viawest.com>wrote: > It is common practice because people do not control all of the MTU sizes** > ** > > on all of the links in their network. If you control all of the links**** > > you raise the MTU. Sometimes that isn’t an option due to providers or**** > > legacy equipment (sometimes equals more often than not).**** > > I never said it was good, I said it was common.**** > > In a follow up response I compared it to smoking and drinking.**** > > Lots of people do it but it doesn’t make it healthy.**** > > I am suffering in the fourth year of trying to get such a link replaced.** > ** > > Thankfully it is the last one. At least till we make another acquisition.* > *** > > ** ** > > LR Mack McBride**** > > Network Architect**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Aaron [mailto:dudep...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, February 11, 2013 2:44 PM > *To:* Mack McBride > *Cc:* Eric A Louie; Cisco NSP > > *Subject:* Re: [c-nsp] ip tcp adjust-mss**** > > ** ** > > 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 <mack.mcbr...@viawest.com> > 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: cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net [mailto: > cisco-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] 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 cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/**** > > ** ** > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/