From: Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net>
To: Richard A Nelson <cowboy@cavein.org>
Cc: Shane Hathaway <shane@hathawaymix.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:54:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200502042054.02375.hpj@urpla.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502041017560.30239@hygvzn-guhyr.pnirva.bet>
On Friday 04 February 2005 19:22, Richard A Nelson wrote:
>
> What will this code do at the (increasingly common) misconfigured
> sites - many places (hotels, airports, etc) return a MTU of 64...
> to which the DHCP3 client faithfully attempts to set, only to
> receive:
> SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
Well, the ip auto configuration is mainly intended for diskless
setups, not something, one will use in an uncontrolled environment.
I doubt, it will behave different, as well as usual distribution
kernels will never enable this by default..
Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-04 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 4:47 [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP Shane Hathaway
2005-02-03 11:45 ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-03 16:57 ` Shane Hathaway
2005-02-03 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-04 8:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-04 16:55 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2005-02-04 18:22 ` Richard A Nelson
2005-02-04 19:54 ` Hans-Peter Jansen [this message]
2005-02-04 20:02 ` Shane Hathaway
2005-02-05 23:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
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