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

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Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:04:33 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: propogate MTU changes

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>> If physical interface MTUs are going to be bouncing around and VLANs 
>> get their MTUs changed then perhaps a VLAN needs both a desired and 
>> actual MTU setting.  The VLAN's interface would then be the minimum of 
>> the desired and actual MTU.  I suppose it isn't too unlike having both 
>> an administrative (desired) and operational (actual) interface state.
> 
> Thats assuming that the VLAN device is actually restricted by the
> ethernet device settings. I don't know if its always not the case,
> but I'm pretty sure it usually isn't. Which means there's no real
> need for an operational state wrt. MTUs.

Actually it would be useful to have this kind of information on the
*ethernet* device to specify the upper limit.
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