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There has been substantial interest in the Internet2 community and the IETF in increasing the Internet path MTU above the default value of 1500, either to at least 9,000 bytes (see "Practical Issues Associated with 9K MTUs" http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~joe/jumbos/ ) or even higher still (e.g., see Matt Mathis' "Raising the Internet MTU" page at http://www.psc.edu/~mathis/MTU/ ).
Until now, a key problem has been a lack of affordable unmanaged gigabit ethernet switches with jumbo frame support for use at the workgroup level.
SMC has stepped up to the plate to fill that need, and is now offering five- and eight-port gig ethernet switches with jumbo frame support for less than $200! Wow!
For more information, see the SMC8505T and SMC8508T at http://www.smc.com/
In June, AMD announced an expansion of its product line of processors, the Opteron 800 Series.
These new processors are designed to enable enterprise as well as small and medium businesses to make an easy transition to 64-bit computing as their needs require. Innovations include an integrated memory controller and HyperTransport™ technology to increase overall performance.
For details about the new 800 series products, including pricing, see AMD's
September 9 press release at
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~74126,00.html
On September 15, VeriSign, which operates the .com and .net domain name registries, began a money-making venture to reap money from user typos—a move that wreaked havoc on many email utilities and anti-spam filters, as well as possibly violating Internet Engineering Task Force standards and VeriSign's own contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
In the past, a typo in a domain name lookup would simply return an error message.
Under the new policy, VeriSign stands to reap advertising revenue by routing
all users who misspell a domain name to VeriSign's own network of websites,
instead.
Some network administrators have responded by launching technical countermeasures,
reconfiguring routers and servers to block access to VeriSign's site.
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