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Gilbert, Any chance you'll have gigabit connections to your LDM server, and if so, can you support large MTU (jumbo frames)? We've been experimenting with a 9000 byte MTU and we'd like to do end-to-end bandwith testing with a few geographically distributed sites when possible. mike On Dec 14, 10:59am, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Subject: Updated bandwidth info on Weatherx.admin.niu.edu > Hello all, > > As of this morning, NIU and my office were connected to the Internet2. > After the last few years of congestion from time to time, that should > now be gone. The I2 connection will be going up and down for testing over > the next few weeks, but as of January 1, if all goes well, it should be > declared operational. Those feeding to and from me from Universities on > the I2 should now see me through I2 routers instead of the Illinois > Century Network, unless the line is down for testing. > > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > ******************************************************************************* >-- End of excerpt from Gilbert Sebenste