Has anyone messed with using the very large jumbo frames for IPv6 for anything like video transfer, or large file transfers?

I’m curious if anyone has done it for firewall overhead reduction too

  • Scoopta@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    You’d need some special hardware with a large enough MTU to handle that. While IP itself can most hardware can’t

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      1 year ago

      True, but should still see a reduction in layer 3 fire walling overhead, no? Though at that point I see places where annoying issues could start occurring.

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    1 year ago

    For once, this quote is almost relevant:

    “The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material.”