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At 07:35 PM 8/1/01, you wrote:
>This is a legacy default that prevented fragmentation on older transmission
>mediums I think SDLC was one of them, but not sure if that was one or not.
>See RFC879.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer"
>To:
>Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:40 PM
>Subject: Re: MTU on the Internet [7:14380]
>
>
> > 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
> > ________________________
> >
> > Priscilla Oppenheimer
> > http://www.priscilla.com
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