[Bridge] [PATCH v2 1/2] net: Added mtu parameter to dev_forward_skb calls
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Thu May 11 16:01:32 UTC 2017
On Thu, 11 May 2017 15:46:27 +0200
Fredrik Markstrom <fredrik.markstrom at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Fredrik Markström <fredrik.markstrom at gmail.com>
>
> is_skb_forwardable() currently checks if the packet size is <= mtu of
> the receiving interface. This is not consistent with most of the hardware
> ethernet drivers that happily receives packets larger then MTU.
Wrong.
Hardware interfaces are free to drop any packet greater than MTU (actually MTU + VLAN).
The actual limit is a function of the hardware. Some hardware can only limit by
power of 2; some can only limit frames larger than 1500; some have no limiting at all.
Any application that should:
* not expect packets larger than MTU to be received
* not send packets larger than MTU
* check actual receive size. IP protocols will do truncation of padded packets
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