netdev - Re: [PATCH] teach ipconfig about the MTU option in DHCP

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	cfriesen@...tel.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach ipconfig about the MTU option in DHCP

From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:05:34 -0600

> The DHCP spec allows the server to specify the MTU.  This can be useful
> for netbooting with UDP-based NFS-root on a network using jumbo frames.
> This patch allows the kernel IP autoconfiguration to handle this option
> correctly.
> 
> It would be possible to use initramfs and add a script to set the MTU,
> but that seems like a complicated solution if no initramfs is otherwise
> necessary, and would bloat the kernel image more than this code would.
> 
> This patch was originally submitted to LKML in 2003 by Hans-Peter Jansen.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks.
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