On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Fredrik Markström
wrote:
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> Maybe I was unclear, the veth implementation drops all packers larger then the
> configured MTU (on the receiving interface).
> Most ethernet drivers accepts packets up to the ethernet MTU no matter the
> configured MTU. As far as I can
On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:48 PM, David Miller wrote:
>
> From: Fredrik Markstrom
> 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.
>
>
From: Fredrik Markstrom
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
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On Tue, 9 May 2017 14:44:36 +0200
Fredrik Markstrom 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 h
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.
This patch set adds a new driver attribute to set the maximum size of
received packet to make it possible to create configurations similar to
those p
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