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Re: Comparing an old flow snapshot with some packet size data

Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com> Sat, 10 August 1996 04:49 UTC

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From: Andrew Partan <asp@partan.com>
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Subject: Re: Comparing an old flow snapshot with some packet size data
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6sigmanets.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 00:23:19 -0400
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> Is there any performance reason, such as buffer memory, that is
> constrained to the point where a 10k MTU couldn't be supported?

The router folks can probably speak better to this than I can, but
with a limited amout of memory in the routers, you probably want
a larger number of smaller buffers than a fewer number of larger
buffers - thus a smaller MTU.
	--asp@partan.com (Andrew Partan)

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