On Apr 15, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Petri Helenius wrote:
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
I advise people doing streaming to not use MTU's larger than ~1450
for these sorts of reasons.
The unfortunate side-effect of that is that most prominent
streaming apps (don't know about Youtube though) then
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
Dear Pete;
The streaming servers that I have dealt with (such as Darwin Streaming
Server) do the fragmentation at the application layer. They thus send
out lots of packets at or near (in this case) 1450 bytes, but they are
not UDP fragments.
That's the whole point -
Fred Baker wrote:
...
1500 byte MTUs in fact work. I'm all for 9K MTUs, and would recommend
them. I don't see the point of 65K MTUs.
...
Well, with almost everybody using PPP0E in germany and at least half
of europe our mtu is somewhere arround 1480. Many routers are braindead
(ICMP
Hello;
On Apr 14, 2007, at 3:38 AM, Peter Dambier wrote:
Fred Baker wrote:
...
1500 byte MTUs in fact work. I'm all for 9K MTUs, and would
recommend them. I don't see the point of 65K MTUs.
...
Well, with almost everybody using PPP0E in germany and at least half
of europe our mtu is
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
I advise people doing streaming to not use MTU's larger than ~1450 for
these sorts of reasons.
The unfortunate side-effect of that is that most prominent streaming
apps (don't know about Youtube though) then send fragmented UDP packets
which leads to reassembly
