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Re: [RAM] Tunnelling & GigE jumbo frame size

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Wed, 12 September 2007 20:02 UTC

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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:02:47 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
To: Dino Farinacci <dino@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [RAM] Tunnelling & GigE jumbo frame size
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Hi,

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:47:58PM -0700, Dino Farinacci wrote:
> To summarize the issue we are trying to put to rest:
> 
> o All router-to-router links on the downstream side of an ITR use  
> either 4470 or 9180 byte MTUs.

Where is this assumption coming from?  As long as there are FastE links,
this is not going to happen.

Gert Doering
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