Le samedi 06 novembre 2010 à 13:29 -0700, Matthew Petach a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 1:22 PM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Last week I asked the operator of fairly major public peering points > >> if they supported anything larger than 1500 MTU. The answer was "no". > >> > > >> > >> There's still a metric buttload of SONET interfaces in the core that > >> won't go above 4470. > >> > >> So, you might conceivably get 4k MTU at some point in the future, but > >> it's really, *really* unlikely you'll get to 9k MTU any time in the > >> next > >> decade. > >> > >> Matt > > > > There is no reason why we are still using 1500 byte MTUs at exchange points. > > > > Completely agree with you on that point. I'd love to see Equinix, AMSIX, > LINX, > DECIX, and the rest of the large exchange points put out statements indicating > their ability to transparently support jumbo frames through their > fabrics, or at > least indicate a roadmap and a timeline to when they think they'll be able to > support jumbo frames throughout the switch fabrics.
Agree. Some people do: Netnod. ;) (1500 in one option, 4470 in another, part of a single interconnection deal -- unless I'm mistaken about the contractual side of things). mh > > Matt
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