From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] bridge -- support different MTU sizes Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:45:32 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040709164532.22202ce2.davem@redhat.com> References: <20040708104143.67210e39@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bridge@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Stephen Hemminger In-Reply-To: <20040708104143.67210e39@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:41:43 -0700 Stephen Hemminger 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.