Re: [v6ops] MTUs on the general Internet

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> The primary thing I think though that one can take away from those
> numbers is that people do not really care about MTU and that they are
> mostly fine with 1280. There is then also no real perceived benefit for
> them as long as their stuff is 'fast'.

"People" as in residential users may not really care about MTU as long
as their Facebook and Youtube works.

I can assure you that our business users *do* care: 1500 byte MTU (or
more) is a *hard* requirement for a lot of the contracts we bid on
("hard" meaning: If we didn't offer at least 1500 byte MTU, we would
automatically be excluded from that bid).

Thus we have concluded that it's far simpler to just offer 1500 bytes
to all customers. Note that we don't use PPPoE except for a few limited
circumstances.

Steinar Haug, AS 2116