On Jun 3 2007 01:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:46:46 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said:
>
>> along comes xt_u32, a revamped ipt_u32,
>
>+1 for doing this - I've been dragging along a local ipt_u32 patch for a while,
>and been wishing it had ipv6 support.
>
>> * Reduced the buffer size to 17 KB. I think that is quite ok
>> since
>> I added an overflow check, SHOULD THERE BE ANY device with an
>> MTU larger than our loopback masterpiece (16436 bytes).
>>
>> Are there such devices that support Megasuperjumboframes?
>
>IP over Infiniband? I think those have some outrageous MTU? Personally,
>I wouldn't need it for anything bigger than 9K ethernet jumbograms, but
>that one's a decision for others.
Can you find out? For such supersize packets, I'd like to switch to
kmalloc/vmalloc rather than keeping a big buffer in the .bss.
Jan
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