> Mike Karels wrote:
> >> There are also things to consider such as if a GigE card is connected to
> >> a GigE device (switch/card etc) and the card supports jumbo frames
> >> should the MRU be set to the max jumbo receive size for the card? This
> >> could cause confusion when people plug jumbo capable devices in with
> >> hardware limitations making the MRU lower than other devices on the
> >> network.
> >
> > Although we don't have an MRU explicitly, we don't enable reception
> > of jumbo frames without administrator action. There is an IFCAP_JUMBO_MTU
> > flag defined, but not previously used as far as I know. We added the
> > ability to set that flag with ifconfig, which enables reception of
> > jumbo frames without changing the MTU. Then, in ether_input, we accept
> > any packet that a NIC sees fit to receive.
> for what values of "we"?
Sorry, that's Secure Computing. I was elaborating on a change I had
mentioned earlier.
Mike
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