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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: softmac mtu
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:40:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4515A9BF.90709@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef3s4u$or5$3@sea.gmane.org>

Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why softmac (and maybe device using linux 80211 stack) can't increase
> their mtu above 1500 ?
> 
> IRRC 802.11 allow to send bigger frame. Moreover some driver like airo
> allow to use mtu biger than 2000.

The maximum value for MTU is set in include/linux/if_ether.h for all ethernet-type communications, 
not in softmac or ieee80211. I doubt that one could easily change the number. It may be that the 
802.11 standard allows bigger frames, but it looks to me as if Linux does not.

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-23 17:50 softmac mtu Matthieu CASTET
2006-09-23 21:40 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2006-09-23 21:47   ` David Miller
2006-09-23 21:59     ` Larry Finger
     [not found]       ` <39e6f6c70609231504qd442c59hebf152df00a7af0c@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-23 22:08         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-09-23 22:23       ` David Miller
2006-09-25 19:17 ` Matthieu CASTET
2006-09-25 20:01   ` John W. Linville
2006-09-27 12:39     ` Jiri Benc
2006-09-27 13:57       ` castet.matthieu
2006-09-27 13:55         ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-27 17:17           ` matthieu castet
2006-09-28  7:39             ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-28 17:58               ` matthieu castet
2006-09-28 15:35           ` Michael Buesch
2006-09-28 15:45             ` Jouni Malinen
2006-09-28 15:47             ` Johannes Berg
2006-09-28 16:13               ` Jouni Malinen
2006-09-28 17:02         ` Daniel Drake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-23 17:50 Matthieu CASTET

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