[AG-TECH] AG & MTU Size

[Mike Weaver - MICS/USDOE]

Does anyone have any information or has anyone done any research on the
effect of MTU size on the AG?  The Joint Engineering Team (JET) of the Large
Scale Networking (LSN) group of the Interagency Working Group on IT R&D
(IWG/ITRD) out of the National Coordination Office for Information
Technology Research and Development (NITRD) reporting to the Whitehouse
Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science and
Technology Council - whew...that's a mouthful! - is suggesting an MTU size
of 9K+.

Does anyone know the effects of trying to tune Windows/Linux's TCP/IP stacks
to work with 9000-byte MTUs?  How about the video and audio tools
(vic/rat) - any issues that anyone might know about?

Thanks,

Mike

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