Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Joe Loiacono wrote:

Large MTUs enable significant throughput performance enhancements for large data transfers over long round-trip times (RTTs.) The original

This is solved by increasing TCP window size, it doesn't depend very much on MTU. Larger MTU is better for devices that for instance do per-packet interrupting, like most endsystems probably do. It doesn't increase long-RTT transfer performance per se (unless you have high packetloss because you'll slow-start more efficiently). -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se