Re: #540: "jumbo" frames

On 25/06/2014 10:20 p.m., David Krauss wrote:
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> On 2014–06–25, at 5:35 PM, <K.Morgan@iaea.org> <K.Morgan@iaea.org> wrote:
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>> Bad idea IMO.  That would really paint HTTP/2 into a corner.  With no reserved bits left, there would never be a chance to go above 64K frames.  i.e. you could never " back-port bigger frames onto an existing protocol"
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> IPv6 packets only go up to 64K, so no network processor is going to get away with coarser granularity for the foreseeable future.
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http://staff.psc.edu/mathis/MTU/limits.html :

 IPv6 - The extended length option provides for a 32 bit length field,
supporting packets up to 4294967295 bytes.


Amos

Received on Thursday, 10 July 2014 13:05:33 UTC