Like most folks who’ve knocked around in the network-technology world for any length of time, I’ve been plagued throughout my career by “MTU issues.” A couple of years ago, a bunch of them piled up at once for me and I went fishing for some reason that these issues never stopped showing up, thinking:
- What gives ?
- Is there something fundamentally unsolvable?
- Is there something we’re all just doing wrong?
- Did this all get fixed\, and I just missed a memo?
The result of that extended fishing expedition is this “MTU Manifesto.” I hope that it inspires you to at least think about the context in which our collective/reflexive approaches to MTU came from, and to what extent they are/aren’t valid in the contemporary enterprise IT context.
Enjoy!