Re: Strange public traceroutes return private RFC1918 addresses

On 4-feb-04, at 23:46, Hani Mustafa wrote:

How does a 50Mbyte MTU sound like?

Excessive. The trouble is that you get to throw away much more data for a single bit error and also that the difference between the average packet size and the maximum would be huge, so any statically allocated buffers would essentially be a waste of memory most of the time.