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Re:How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet by IshKebab on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @08:39AM (#22365291)
I don't think the Ethernet Frame Overhead graph is correct. Surely the overhead is proportionally higher, per amount of data, for smaller packets. That graph shows that the overhead is just proportional to the amount of data sent, irrespective of the packet size, which can't be right.
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Re:How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet by alexforencich on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:21PM (#22371223)
The graph above that one is totally wrong. The frame overhead graph may be correct, though.
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