4 May
1996
4 May
'96
9:59 a.m.
But there are customers for whom end-to-end MTU is a buying issue. Bogus or not, it is a very real issue.
They exist, but are there enough of them to make it work the extra money to accomodate them? Nobody seems able to say how real the issue is (ie, hard usage and performance numbers). While larger MTUs are a good thing, they aren't very common and as 100BT gets more popular, I expect them to become even less common. I guess the router/switch manufacturers will just have to be prepared to handle high packet rates. Or maybe we need a "reverse fragmentation" protocol. Packets to the same destination could be lumped together and routed/switched as a single packet.