[AG-TECH] AG & MTU Size

Barbara A. Kucera bkucera at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Wed May 14 15:24:02 CDT 2003


Let me see if I understand, Mike . . .

The JET of LSN on IWF/ITRD of NCOITRD reporting to the White House OSTP and 
the NSF and TC suggest an MTU size of 9K+?

Yeah, okay.

Barbara
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At 11:58 AM 5/14/2003 -0400, 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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>Mike Weaver
>Sr. Network Administrator
>SC-31/Germantown Building
>US Department of Energy
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>Washington, D.C. 20585-1290
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