netdev - Re: Does IPv6 support Jumbograms ?

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Message-ID: <1397138475.16584.27.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:01:15 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Francois WELLENREITER <f.wellenreiter@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does IPv6 support Jumbograms ?

On Thu, 2014-04-10 at 15:28 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> I thought ip6_default_advmss will deal with this which correctly limits the
> mtu. Capping dst_mtu would make it harder to implement jumbograms some day.

I doubt we'll do this (jumbo grams)

This is a terrible academic idea.


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