[j-nsp] QSA adapters and MTU

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 04:15:58PM +0100, Ola Thoresen via juniper-nsp wrote:
> But still - people more knowledgeable than me - assure me that there is a
> limit of 2008 Bytes MTU - at least for 1G.

MTU is a very ill-understood topic...  as is auto-negotiation...

If these people can't point to any formal documentation, I'd put it
to "folklore" - maybe they tested with an 1G copper device on the other
end that claimed 9000 but failed to actually do more than 2008...

gert
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert at greenie.muc.de
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