[nsp] Path MTU discovery

[Jared Mauch]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:37:53AM -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Just curious to see if anyone here has seen a real benefit to enabling TCP
> path mtu discovery on their routers and servers.  Thank you.

	Yes, you can see significant bgp convergence improvements
by enabling it on a Cisco router.

	by default it uses a 536 byte mss, by increasing it, you can
see much fewer packets to transmit bgp updates.  (ie: 1480 on ethernet,
or even larger if you have a all sonet core network).

	- jared

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