[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] ovsschema: Limits the range of the MTU.

[nickcooper-zhangtonghao]

Thanks for your working and tips. :)

Thanks.
Nick

> On Dec 13, 2016, at 9:10 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 08:48:57PM -0800, nickcooper-zhangtonghao wrote:
>> According to RFC 791, every internet module must be
>> able to forward a datagram of 68 octets without further
>> fragmentation.  This is because an internet header may
>> be up to 60 octets, and the minimum fragment is 8 octets.
>> The maximum size of IP packets is 65535 bytes. The range
>> of MTU values allowes for the MTU configuration parameter
>> is 68 to 65535.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: nickcooper-zhangtonghao <nic at opencloud.tech <mailto:nic at opencloud.tech>>
> 
> I don't think it's worthwhile to restrict the range of the requested MTU
> in this way.  There just doesn't seem to be a lot of value to it.
> 
> However, the documentation is valuable, so I applied that part of the
> patch to master.
> 
> Thank you!