[Bridge] Bridge not bridging NFS fragments?

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Aug 2 15:33:29 PDT 2004


On Mon, 02 Aug 2004, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> I am worried what happens if you bridge a 4K mtu lan to a 1500 mtu lan..
> It is likely that the ethernet driver of the smaller mtu lan will oops or
> hang while trying to send the huge skb. No other code path would hand
> a huge mtu to a device.

Is this something that can be simulated in ethernet, by setting one
net's MTU to 500 or something?

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