- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:17:25 +0000
- To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
- cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -------- In message <CABkgnnXGRRS8y2jy2MtbfcBAfwxE7MaNHdKU7GwqBmYNk2+Kqw@mail.gmail.com> , Martin Thomson writes: >I might just be dense, but I'm not seeing the connection. I can see >how path MTU affects network performance at the lowest layers, but I'm >not seeing how that affects application layer protocols. How is one >big frame different from multiple smaller frames at this layer? Think "incoming load-balancer at the end of 1Tbit/s fiber" ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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