Re: Setting MTU (fwd)

Tom Samplonius (tom@sdf.com)
Sat, 28 Dec 1996 17:25:43 -0800 (PST)

On Sat, 28 Dec 1996, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Ken Paquette shaped the electrons to say...
> >And on other platforms, it seems that you can improve throughput by getting an
> >MTU of 4k instead of 1500....
>
> Many PCs have problems with 1500, let alone 4K. And it also means larger
> buffers on both ends. Besides, ethernet packets aren't that big to start
> with.

Not to mention fragmentation CPU overhead.

> -Mz
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Tom