Matt, thanks for your answer No I'm not. I had a discussion with a colleage about wether or not 64 KB ATM IP MTU is a common feature. In his opinion some Netstar people made him believe the GigaRouters could do such a thing - two years ago or so. It even seems to be possible if you consider SDH. And RF1626 only recommends the 9180 bytes default ATM MTU. But I never heard anything about ATM boards/routers supporting ATM MTU's higher than 9180 bytes. In fact we tried to set the GigaRouter's ATM OC3 to 64 KB MTU. (this was some playing around with the SNMP vars...) We then saw up to 16 KB IP packets travelling unfragmented through the GigaRouter (HiPPI to ATM), just before the GR's crashed ;-) Now there is this hint in the manual saying ATM MTU over 9180 bytes is not supported. But this Cray ATM OC3 board can obviously do this thing. And it would be a nice option in a partially HiPPI-based environment in order to avoid HiPPI to ATM fragmentation. But again, I'm not sure I want to rely on a 64KB-option in the AAL5 standard if nobody (except Cray of course...) ever goes higher than 9180 bytes. Tassilo Erlewein -- Tassilo Erlewein Computing Center University of Stuttgart Communication Systems & BelWue Development Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart tel ++49 711 685 5871 fax ++49 711 678 7626 e-mail: erlewein@rus.uni-stuttgart.de ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq">http://www.nealis.net/ascend/faq</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <STRONG>Follow-Ups</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11954.html">Re: (ASCEND) ATM MTU 64 KB ?</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg11944.html">Re: (ASCEND) ATM MTU 64 KB ?</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Matt Holdrege <matt@ascend.com></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11934.html">Re: (ASCEND) Pipeline 75<-->75 and NAT.</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11932.html">(ASCEND) what happend to the wanidle interface?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11944.html">Re: (ASCEND) ATM MTU 64 KB ?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg11954.html">Re: (ASCEND) ATM MTU 64 KB ?</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#11938"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd287.html#11938"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>