Re: [Xen-devel] mtu on vifX.X

[Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 08/01/2005 06:58:23 PM:

> Is there an reason why this is limited to 1500 bytes?  Could it be 
increased?
> Or, could the ioctl be implemented so it could be changed from the 
cmdline?
> It'd help with performance between dom0 and domU.
> 
Usually Dom0 does MAC-level routing of packets for all domU's using a 
bridge in dom0. Packets that go through the bridge don't get fragmented, 
but go out the ethernet card directly. To make sure that all these packets 
have the default ethernet size they are limited to this MTU size. If you 
increase the MTU size, some connections might not work anymore.

  Stefan


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