24 Oct
2010
24 Oct
'10
8:52 p.m.
Coming across Phil Dykstra's paper from 1999 is what got me thinking about it (well, that and moving a lot of data between Europe and the West coast of the US).
Found more good information here: http://noc.net.internet2.edu/i2network/maps--documentation/policy-statem ents.html#Jumbo%20Frames It might not be a bad idea to take some of what is learned on Inet2 and backport it to the 'net where possible. I also discovered that Linux will do RFC4821 PMTU discovery if you set /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mtu_probing to the proper value. It is turned off by default. Solaris is on by default it appears.