On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:24:20 -0700
Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 07/14/2013 11:43 PM, Jagdish Motwani wrote:
> > On 07/13/2013 09:17 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> >> On 07/13/2013 01:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>> Yes John,
> >>>       When i do the ping request, i can see the 2 ip fragments. Its the
> >>> ping reply that is dropped by my igb interface.
> >>
> >> Is the replay also 2 packets?  If not, the peer machine may have wrong MTU.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ben
> >>
> > You are right Ben. Peer machine has MTU=1500 greater than my MTU=1000.
> >
> > So the reply is a single packet (which is bigger than my MTU).
> >
> > My problem is : By setting an MTU of 1000, my igb device drops all received 
> > packet having length more than 1000
> 
> That is how must NICs work...MTU basically == maximum receive unit as well.
> 
> 
> > However e1000e allows me to receive such packets.
> 
> Someone will probably fix that one day.
> 
> Why do you expect mis-matched MTU networks to work?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> 

As I remember it,
E1000 has a hardware design that forces the receive buffer has to be rounded
up to the next power of 2. 

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