netdev - Re: [PATCH] vlan: propogate MTU changes

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Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:38:20 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@....pl>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: propogate MTU changes

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
>> Propogate MTU changes of underlying device to all related VLAN
>> devices.
>> see: https://bugzilla.vyatta.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3742
> 
> Not sure about this... Some switches (HP ProCurve for example) allow to 
> select which vlan accepts jumbo frames and which does not and attach 
> both to the same port. It is quite useful as you are able to setup one 
> vlan with jumbo frames dedicated for example to servers connected by 
> 1G/10G links, and a second vlan with standard 1500 MTU distributed to 
> non jumbo-aware switches/workstations.

Thats why I favour the knob to specify the desired behaviour.
Treating a VLAN device as a seperate entity from the ethernet
device which just has the same hardware-imposed restrictions
seems like a valid view to me.

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