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Subject: Re:  ARPANET/MILNET performance statistics
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 03:21:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 03:21:00 1985
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From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL.ARPA>

One observation:  MILISI is the gateway that EGP tells my gateways to
use for all the nets on the other side of the bridges.  Assuming this is
true for both sides of the house, it would seem that this is the gateway
used for peoples little ethernets to talk through to get to the
otherside. Most local nets have higher MTU's than the IMP 1008
(typically 1536). This results in their gateways sending lots of
fragmented datagrams all over the place. Since most of the LANs derive
choose the MIL/ARPA bridge from the EGP information, ISI may bear the
brunt of the fractured ethernet traffic. IP fragmentation is admittedly
a bad thing to do on a regular basis.  BRL avoids this by keeping most
of our LAN's at 1008 (for historical reasons mostly, the gateways
originally didn't know how to fragment).

-Ron