On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 02:17:51PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Well, not exactly. Even if we put 65520 into the scripts, the kernel > will silently drop it down to 65504. It actually won't require anyone > change anything, they just won't get the full value. I experimented > with this in the past for other reasons and an overly large MTU setting > just resulted in the max MTU. I don't know if that's changed, but if it > still works that way, this is much less of an issue than it might > otherwise be.
So it is just docs and relying on PMTU? That is not as bad.. Still would be nice to avoid if at all possible.. Jason