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Why the MTU size is 1500 ?

nadeem-akhtar
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‎11-19-2002 11:49 AM - edited ‎03-02-2019 03:00 AM

Can somebody explain that why the Ethernet Maximum Transmission Unit was chosen to be 1500 bytes (why exactly 1500) ? It might have some historical reason.

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Nadeem

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