To my knowledge, there are no proponents of sub 1518 byte IP MTU's to be
used as defaults on internet routers. I would tend to think that at least
4470 would make sense. Per my previous post in this thread, I am of the
opinion that a consensus hasn't been reached at this point on this issue.
For information, I would target the IET F since changes in this matter will
likely be driven from the vendor space who currently pay some attention to
the IETF..
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On 8/1/2001 at 5:40 PM Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
>Have you done a search in Google? I would think you could find some info
>on
>this with some work. Let us know what you find out. ;-)
>
>My thought was that it would not be a good idea to use 572 bytes since so
>many Internet devices send 1500-byte Ethernet frames. The 572 bytes size
>would mean routers in the core of the Internet would have to do
>fragmentation and reassembly which would really slow things down and be a
>bad idea. So my guess is that the MTU is 1500 or greater wherever possible.
>
>Priscilla
>
>At 01:19 PM 7/31/01, Nabil Fares wrote:
>>Greetings,
>>
>>What's the common/standard mtu on the internet backbone? At one point all
>>ISPs used 572 size. Any internet resources you guys can point me to?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Nabil
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