[j-nsp] Best practice MTU?

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Apr 27 04:56:58 EDT 2012


On 04/27/2012 12:33 AM, Chris Kawchuk wrote:
> I usually set the interface physical MTU as high as it goes (per
> device), but manually set protocol inet to MTU 1500 (for things like

We do almost this (physical -> max), but set IP MTU to 9100 rather than 
default 1500. The latter is helpful if you ever want to do tunnels e.g. 
mirror traffic to GRE that stay purely within your network.


More information about the juniper-nsp mailing list