From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach ipconfig about the MTU option in DHCP Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090519.153203.223534629.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4A12F4EE.7070305@nortel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: cfriesen@nortel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41173 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752989AbZESWcF (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 May 2009 18:32:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A12F4EE.7070305@nortel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Chris Friesen" 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 Looks good, applied, thanks.