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Re: Internet Exchanges supporting jumbo frames?


From: Joel Maslak <jmaslak () antelope net>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 07:58:29 -0700

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:27 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:

PMTU blackhole detection implemented in all hosts. IPv4 is lost cause in
my opinion (although it's strange how many hosts that seem to get away
with 1492 (or is it 1496) MTU because they're using PPPoE).

if your adv_mss is set accordingly you can get away with
 a lot.


At least for TCP.  EDNS with sizes > 14xx bytes just plain doesn't
universally work across the internet, yet it's the default everywhere.


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