On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 08:46 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:06:22AM +0100, Matt Davey wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 21:57 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 15:48 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > > Can someone explain why the driver might constrain the NIC to a minimum > > > > > MTU size of 1500? > > > > > > > > Asking the developers on netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is going to get > > > > you the answer faster than asking here. > > > > There is a patch: > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4001 > > I think this may be a separate issue. > > That last comment on 2006-03-01 mentions that it was included in mainline. > The patch referenced in the other bug (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4380) > does seem to be included in the kernel Jay was running (I just doublechecked > the Fedora sources for that version). There appear to be two issues in the referenced bug: (1) VELOCITY_MIN_MTU is hardcoded at 1500 bytes in via-velocity.h, and (2) An earlier version of the via-velocity driver couldn't handle on-the-fly MTU changes. Number (2) was resolved with a patch. Number (1) was not. I intend to submit a patch to kernel.org, but first, can someone confirm that the proper way to alter MTU size is: ifconfig <interface> mtu <size> service network restart I can't get it to work unless I bounce the network service after making the MTU change. I just need to know if that's normal. Thanks, Jay -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
