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by scifi 672 days ago
I'm not certain what my point is, but I wanted to mention that jumbo frames don't work over the Internet. More of a LAN thing.
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My local internet exchange has a 1500 vlan and a 9000 vlan. My understanding is there are many fewer peers on the 9000 vlan, but it's not zero.

If you want to use jumbo packets on the internet at large, you need to have working path MTU detection, which realistically means at least probing, but you really should have that at 1500 too, because there's still plenty of broken networks out there. My guess is you won't have many connections with an effective mtu above 1500, but you might have some.

Separate peering VLANs for those using 1500 byte peering and 9000 byte peering about sums up how much of a PITA it is to mix things and expect PMTUD to work.

I'd be willing to bet my lunch more 10x more places have been moving down to assuming 1280 byte connections (since IPv6 guarantees it) than have been peering on the internet at >1500 (not counting 1504 for VLAN tags and whathaveyou).