It's the de-facto MTU of much of The Internet. Baby Jumbo (MTU >1500 but <9k), Jumbo (MTU ~9k), and Super Jumbo (MTU substantially larger than 9k) frames exist, and are supported by many (but -sadly- not all) Ethernet devices.
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> Also with how global traffic is managed smaller packets tend to get priority...
Do you have a reliable citation for this? I would expect that core and near-core devices would handle so much traffic, that they all would be using MTUs far higher than 1500 bytes per frame.
It's pretty standard QoS measure, network schedulers especially for multiplexed/aggregated networks will have a bias for small packets, you should be able to find performance statistics for various token bucket configurations that will demonstrate that.
Do you have a cite for that? :) I know that CoDel doesn't bias for small packets; it treats all flows equally and tracks traffic on a bytes-transferred (rather than packets-transferred) basis.
It's the de-facto MTU of much of The Internet. Baby Jumbo (MTU >1500 but <9k), Jumbo (MTU ~9k), and Super Jumbo (MTU substantially larger than 9k) frames exist, and are supported by many (but -sadly- not all) Ethernet devices.
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> Also with how global traffic is managed smaller packets tend to get priority...
Do you have a reliable citation for this? I would expect that core and near-core devices would handle so much traffic, that they all would be using MTUs far higher than 1500 bytes per frame.