Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.0 ethX bogus packet size messages ... | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:41:38 +0100 (BST) |
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> [[ Note that as an undocumented feature, most 8390 clone NICs can > actually Tx and Rx giant packets up to 4k in size! Don't try this > on anything other than a "home-net" or somebody is likely to come > after you with an axe and blood in their eyes. Besides, it doesn't > gain you much -- see the Boggs paper on measured capaicty of ethernet > for a good read of packet size vs # of hosts vs network loading. ]]
Also note correct oversized packets dumped onto a network break certain well known vendors 8390 based drivers.
> Alan, I think the following patch (to use your dev->change_mtu) to keep > ether users honest, is probably a good idea.
We could do, but to be honest I dont think we should stop people. Its not possible to make a computer luserproof. This is something only root can do and its far less fatal than rm -rf /, which is allowed
Alan
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