Re: Inter-exchange media types

smaller packets than they otherwise could. Some hosts get noticeably higher performance when they are able to use FDDI- sized packets compared to Ethernet-sized packets, and restricting the packet size to 1500 bytes will put a limit on the maximum

Some hard figures on this would be interesting. Ie, % of packets with > 1500 MTU, % performance degradation if fragmented, etc. I suspect that other backbone design issues (like congestion) dominate any fragmentation issue. I'm not sure a few people trying to get a little extra throughput should dictate the design of a NAP (unless they want to pay for it).