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Probably a dumb question, why the maximum size (and the one has most of packages) in the AMS-IX graph 1514 bytes instead of 1500 bytes that got discussed in the
by fireattack 7y ago
Probably a dumb question, why the maximum size (and the one has most of packages) in the AMS-IX graph 1514 bytes instead of 1500 bytes that got discussed in the article?
- ra1n85 7y ago1500 bytes is the MTU of IP, in most cases. It often excludes the Ethernet header, which is 14 bytes excluding the FCS, preamble, IFG, and any VLANs. If have a 1500 byte MTU for IP, then we need at least a 1514 byte MTU for IP + Ethernet. We often call the > 1514B MTU the "interface MTU". It's unnecessarily confusing.