3 Feb
2004
3 Feb
'04
6:40 p.m.
Niels Bakker wrote:
* pete@he.iki.fi (Petri Helenius) [Tue 03 Feb 2004, 15:42 CET]:
Me wonders why people ask for 40 byte packets at linerate if the mtu is supposedly larger?
Support for the worst-case scenario. Same why you spec support for a BIGINT-line ACL without excessive impact on forwarding capacity.
Why large MTU then? Most modern ethernet controllers don´t care if you´re sending 1500 or 9000 byte packets. (with proper drivers taking advantage of the features there) If you´re paying for 40 byte packets anyway, there is no incentive to ever go beyond 1500 byte MTU. Pete