Re: [PATCH] TSO fix in br_dev_queue_push_xmit

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Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Vlad Drukker wrote:
> > There is a bug in linux bridge code, causing TSO not to work.
> > MTU oversize packets silently dropped in br_dev_queue_push_xmit()
> > Locally generated TSO packets are bigger than MTU (surprise, eh)
>
> The Bridge standard mandates that oversized packets should be dropped in
> the bridge, but it says nothing about locally generated oversized
> packets..

Locally generated packets, oversized or not, connect to the bridge on a 
logical port and should be treated the same as other physical ports.

--
Al

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