How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

Re:How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet by saber6 on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @10:12AM (#22366115)

I understand. I have architected networks for over a decade now. The real issue is serialization delay. If I have a tiny voice packet that has to wait to be physically transmitted behind a huge dump truck packet (big), it can still be a problem even with high speed links with regards to microbursts.

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Re:How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet by sjwright on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:28AM (#22373590)

A single gigabit link can sends something in the order of 80,000 packets per second. If packets had a 9000 byte MTU, that would still be 12,000 packets per second. Having your smaller packets wait a at most an extra 0.02 milliseconds to be serialised onto a 1 gigabit physical link seems... rather unlikely to be a problem in the real world?

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