Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 May 2017 08:49:28 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Set maximum receive packet size on veth interfaces |
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On Tue, 9 May 2017 14:44:36 +0200 Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently veth drops all packets larger then the mtu set on the receiving > end of the pair. This is inconsistent with most hardware ethernet drivers.
There is no guarantee that packets larger than MTU + VLAN tag will be received by hardware drivers. So why is this necessary for veth? What is your special use case which makes this necessary?
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