From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eswierk@arastra.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
maxk@qualcomm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configurable tap interface MTU
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:22:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070916.122217.68050499.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6c711510709120954i29a8f86bg9ea7bb337a039b5a@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Ed Swierk" <eswierk@arastra.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:54:35 -0700
> On 9/11/07, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > Please make it 65535 without an Ethernet header and 65521
> > with an Ethernet header.
>
> Here is a revised patch that allows MTUs up to 65535 for tap
> interfaces and up to 65521 for tun interfaces.
>
> (If I set the MTU to 65521 on a tun interface, ping complains "message
> too long" when I send a 65521-byte packet; 65520 works okay, though.)
Applied to net-2.6.24
Please provide a proper Signed-off-by: line and a full
changelog with every patch submission and revision in
the future.
Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-16 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-11 14:42 [PATCH] Configurable tap interface MTU Ed Swierk
2007-09-11 17:20 ` Rick Jones
2007-09-12 3:29 ` Herbert Xu
2007-09-12 16:54 ` Ed Swierk
2007-09-16 19:22 ` David Miller [this message]
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