Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 00:45:48 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changing Ethernet frame size to 576 bytes? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960324004213.8944J-100000@cabal.io.org> In-Reply-To: <n1384500272.3953@Richard Wackerbarth>
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On 23 Mar 1996, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>
> His suggestion is valid. If the MTU is larger than the minimum MTU
> along the path, each packet that you send out will be broken into
> sub-packets and reassembled on the far end. If any subpacket gets
> lost, the whole packet is lost and must be retransmitted.
Then why doesn't everyone on the Internet use 576-byte packets? I
assume on a fast link, the larger the packet size, the less overhead
there is in sending each one? I've never heard of an FTP server (or
Web server or news server, since they could all apparently benefit
from this) use anything other than the default 1500 MTU.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org)
System and Network Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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