Sorry about that. Didn't realize that "Reply to:" doesn't get set to the
list, most lists that I'm on do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Priscilla Oppenheimer"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: MTU on the Internet [7:14380]
> Send to the list, not me.
>
> 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
> ________________________
>
> Priscilla Oppenheimer
> http://www.priscilla.com
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