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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : linuxsa <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 11:34:49 +0930

Anyone going to meeting with laptop with GbE?

Hi,

I'm doing some work on moving the Internet's deployed
MTU from 1500 bytes to 9000 bytes.  At 1500 bytes at
1Gbps a full ethernet frame isn't too far from an ATM
cell at 155Mbps, and we all know what a good idea that
was :-(

If someone has a Linux laptop with a Intel (e1000 driver)
or Broadcom (tg3 driver) ethernet card and are going
to the next LinuxSA meeting could you please drop me an
e-mail.

I've altered my machine's kernel to improve path MTU
discovery for 9000 byte jumbo frames, but I've no way
to test this without some help.

Thanks as always,
Glen

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  Network Engineer          Email: glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au
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