Garrett D'Amore writes: > I think its time someone here took a stand. 9000 bytes is a good size > because it is nearly universal, and is sufficient to hold an 8K NFS block.
"Taking a stand" here means being deliberately incompatible with some other vendors. > A very few devices support 16K or even higher, but the utility of such > large MTUs is probably somewhat limited... even at 10Gb. And the What if one of these other vendors "takes a stand" on 12K just to spite us? Or if the IEEE itself finally decides to set a standard in this area and doesn't pick the same value? I think we're on really shaky ground here. I completely agree with having a default jumbogram size, I agree with making it 9000, and I agree with making it "hard" to change. I don't agree that we ought to make it completely unchangeable just to force the issue. LLDP is a much better answer to make sure there aren't undetected MTU-related accidents. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
