Talk:Maximum transmission unit

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Moved because MTU is a TLA, and half the references were to MTU Aero Engines.

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[edit] rename for better understanding

I would like to vote for remaning this article from MTU (networking) to Maximum transmission unit and to change the redirection the other way round.

I was just about to say the same thing. It seems pretty obvious that this page should be Maximum transmission unit rather than MTU. Richard W.M. Jones 21:08, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

MTU (networking) -> maximum transmission unit -- expanding acronym will avoid need for ugly bracketed disambiguation Plugwash 16:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
  • Support per nom; seems sensible idea. Regards, David Kernow 01:03, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Support, pretty straight forward. Shouldn't need a vote. —Pengo 07:01, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Unforuntately the redirect has a (trivial) edit history so afaict it has to go through requested moves Plugwash 17:21, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 07:25, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ATM section

I think the section about ATM optimisation sounds a bit wrong. For instance, the ethernet header (14 bytes) (I thought) would be stripped off before being sent via ATM. It also seems a bit irrelevant to be in Wikipedia - may be a personal website or something. --203.20.101.202 22:59, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Ethernet header stripped off? Think again... how would you implement a layer 2 network over ATM then? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.241.160.113 (talk • contribs) 2007-07-29 21:05:40

My understanding is that with any WAN technology, the WAN would be the "layer 2 network". Ethernet headers are only used within the LAN (if Ethernet technology is used); layer 3 packets remain basically unchanged when going from one network to another, but layer 2 headers have to be stripped off every time the packet passes a router, and new headers - depending on the technology - added again for the next hop. Layer 2 does NOT offer connectivity between different networks (in the above example, Ethernet and ATM); that's what layer 3 (e.g., IP) is for.--Hilmarz (talk) 21:15, 31 December 2007 (UTC)