On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Bennett Todd wrote:
2000-07-14-20:06:30 Shawn McMahon:
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 07:42:08PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
Unfortunately an increasing number of Internet users, with servers I might add, are now behind DSL lines that have <1500-byte MTUs..... [...] So what are we going to do, folks; are we going to react to people who are in this situation by saying "oh, well; guess I'm walled off from you, too bad, so sad, dump that $50 connection and get a T1 or get off my Internet", or are we going to adapt?
What kind of adaptation is necessary?
Traditionally that sort of thing hasn't been a problem; that's what fragmentation is for.
Bennett, We're talking about providers-of-the-masses being the direct upstream of these devices. They are more likely to do something less than 35:1 oversubscription than they are to deploy routers with the horsepower to fragment for every one of their customers. --- John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc