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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Joseph Mack wrote:
> The assumption that is wrong is that small packets take a shorter time
> to transmit, than do packets of MTU size.
[snip]
> The consequence of this is that the zero bandwidth ACKs from the
> client are taking up as much ethernet capacity as does the 100Mbps
> of packets being sent from the real-server.
The benefeit is far rarer than I anticipated. Most interesting. Thanks
for educating me :)
The 100MBit ethernet MTU is fixed at 1500, but what if the back-end
servers MTU is higher on layer three? Or if there is little or no ACK
traffic -- say you're using UDP, for example?
But, I will admit that the benefeit is in the rare case, certainly not the
common case. It would take some engineering or a feat of circumstance to
cause it to occur :)
Thanks,
Kyle Sparger - Senior System Administrator
Dialtone Internet - Extremely Fast Web Systems
(954) 581-0097 x 122 - Voice (954) 581-7629 - Fax
ksparger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dialtoneinternet.net
"Forget college, I'm going pro."
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