[AG-TECH] AG & MTU Size

[nikhil]

Mike,
You might want to refer this link where we did performance measurements for 
three different MTU size.
Let us know if you need more info.

http://www.ngi-supernet.org/g2d/

Nikhil

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 03:58 pm, Mike Weaver - MICS/USDOE wrote:
> 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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