From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cfriesen@nortel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach ipconfig about the MTU option in DHCP
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:03 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519.153203.223534629.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A12F4EE.7070305@nortel.com>
From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 12:05:34 -0600
> The DHCP spec allows the server to specify the MTU. This can be useful
> for netbooting with UDP-based NFS-root on a network using jumbo frames.
> This patch allows the kernel IP autoconfiguration to handle this option
> correctly.
>
> It would be possible to use initramfs and add a script to set the MTU,
> but that seems like a complicated solution if no initramfs is otherwise
> necessary, and would bloat the kernel image more than this code would.
>
> This patch was originally submitted to LKML in 2003 by Hans-Peter Jansen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Looks good, applied, thanks.
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2009-05-19 18:05 [PATCH] teach ipconfig about the MTU option in DHCP Chris Friesen
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