Re: Large Frame Proposal from Patrick McManus on 2014-07-09 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from July to September 2014)

From: Patrick McManus <pmcmanus@mozilla.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 08:26:22 -0400
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, David Krauss <potswa@gmail.com>, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAOdDvNptJiAUcr1sShO6dbfKNya9xm8TTkqc7fk7-cYy=5d10w@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
wrote:

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> Nobody forces the sender to send packets any larger than it wants to.
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obviously if jumbo frames are not used jumbo frames dont matter

but when they are used, all of the receivers streams are put at risk. So
the client is incented to use multiple connections so the risk is not
linked. And that's a fail for h2.

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 12:26:49 UTC