In a message written on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:46:27AM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > Clearly, to balance out the traffic ratios, content providers should set their > server MTUs to 64 bytes. That way, small HTTP request packets will be > nicely balanced out by small HTTP reply packets. If the content providers > also turn off SACK, and force ACKs for each packet, they can achieve > nearly the perfect traffic ratios the eyeball networks seem to desire. > Small packet one way, equivalent small packet the other way, and > everyone is happy. > > Obviously those recent infidels pushing for the so-called "Jumbo Frames" > here on NANOG were nothing more than shills for the eyeball networks, > seeking to get more and more networks out of ratio, in an effort to get > them to cough up money. Fie on them, I say--instead of JumboFrames, > we need MicroFrames! Exchange points should start enforcing a maximum > frame size of 64 bytes, to truly bring the internet into perfectly-balanced > ratio-ness.
I was actually pondering that it may be worth it for some content
delivery networks to pay Apple and Microsoft to implement a TCP
option such that, when requested by the server, all ACKs get padded
to 1500 bytes.
:)
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