Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 09 May 2017 13:48:39 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Set maximum receive packet size on veth interfaces | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 14:44:36 +0200
> 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.
False.
In fact, many pieces of ethernet hardware a not physically capable of sending even VLAN packets that are above the normal base ethernet MTU.
It is therefore untenable to remove this restriction univerally like this.
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