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Message-Id: <20170509.134839.2008658486655854998.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 13:48:39 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: fredrik.markstrom@...il.com Cc: eric.dumazet@...il.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Set maximum receive packet size on veth interfaces From: Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom@...il.com> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 14:44:36 +0200 > Currently veth drops all packets larger then the mtu set on the > receiving end of the pair. This is inconsistent with most hardware > ethernet drivers. False. In fact, many pieces of ethernet hardware a not physically capable of sending even VLAN packets that are above the normal base ethernet MTU. It is therefore untenable to remove this restriction univerally like this.
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