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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: bridge@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] bridge -- support different MTU sizes
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:45:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709164532.22202ce2.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040708104143.67210e39@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:41:43 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> This patch adds support for different size MTU's to bridging.
> It is useful for bridging Ethernet's with jumbo frames, etc.
> 
> The mtu of the bridge pseudo-device is maintained as the minimum
> of all the underlying ports.  And when forwarding a frame through
> the bridge, it will drop the frame if the outgoing port's MTU
> is less than the frame size (as per 802 standard).

Looks fine, applied.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-08 17:41 [PATCH 2.6] bridge -- support different MTU sizes Stephen Hemminger
2004-07-09 23:45 ` David S. Miller [this message]

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