On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:10:42PM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >As Stephen explained, bridge ports of the same bridge device no longer > >need to have the same mtu. So the bridge code needs to drop packets > >(ARP, IP, whatever) that will be too long for the output port. > > Eh.. I do not claim to be a bridge guru, but won't such bridge cause > serious havoc on the network much like PMTU blackholes does? Nobody ever replied to that question. Bart, Stephen, what is your take on this? How was this resolved? > Regards > Henrik -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/bridge/attachments/20040819/306cc9b5/attachment.bin
