[c-nsp] MPLS best practices question

Mark Tinka mtinka at globaltransit.net
Wed Jun 23 11:41:11 EDT 2010


On Wednesday 23 June 2010 08:31:03 pm Peter Rathlev wrote:

> We generally use the highest supported MTU (often 9216
>  bytes) on all internal links, in an effort to make an
>  eventual transition easier later.

We initially considered this, but when some platforms talk 
9,216 bytes, others talk 9,198 bytes, others talk 9,000 
bytes (I think we even saw one that talked 10,000 bytes, but 
I stepped far away from that box), standardizing at 9,000 
bytes was sane for us.

Cheers,

Mark.
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