linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver

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Message-Id: <200609251416.15738.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:16:15 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@...g.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jbglaw@...-owl.de,
	kaber@...sh.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver

On Monday 25 September 2006 13:57, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 12:22:41PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > How would you convince those old LAN games to use a MTU < 1500 which
> > is needed for the tunnel?  I bet they have the size hardcoded.
> 
> The tunnel provides an MTU of 1500. To guarantee this, it never sets the
> DF flag in outgoing packets.

This means it will multiply all full sized packets. That sounds horrible.

-Andi
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