At 10:57 PM -0400 4/18/02, nrf wrote: >""Priscilla Oppenheimer"" wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> He didn't say that BGP negotiates the MTU in any of its PDUs. He just says >> that mismatched MTUs can be a problem, which is all I mentioned in my >> message about OSPF also (although OSPF does in fact also include the MTU >in >> database description packets and refuse to become adjacent with a router >> that doesn't agree on the MTU). > >That's what I'm talking about - OSPFv2 does in fact include an MTU field in >its PDU's (Ok, Ok, it's not really a negotiation per se, but still...), so >if somebody starts a discussion about MTU and BGP, then it would stand to >reason that BGP includes an MTU field somewhere, which I am not aware of. > >And besides, the idea of MTU problems in BGP is an interesting one, because >of the fact that BGP peering often occurs between non-adjacent routers. >What is the relevant MTU size of such a peering arrangement? The routers >do not share a common network, so is it really relevant to talk about MTU? > > > >> Did that have enough TLAs for you? ;-) > >I've read enough RFC's in my day to be impervious to TLA's.
Yes, but now FLAs are quite routine. It's especially elegant that the F is overloaded for four (MPLS) and five (CAIDA), and we are scaling rapidly to higher values of xLA. Who says the Internet can't scale? :-) -- "What Problem are you trying to solve?" ***send Cisco questions to the list, so all can benefit -- not directly to me*** ******************************************************************************** Howard C. Berkowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer, GettLab/Gett Communications http://www.gettlabs.com Technical Director, CertificationZone.com http://www.certificationzone.com "retired" Certified Cisco Systems Instructor (CID) #93005 Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=41925&t=41613 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
