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| author | Michael Brown | 2017-01-25 15:48:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Brown | 2017-01-25 15:55:09 +0100 |
| commit | 70fc25ad6e71a99b5802eb92b95c26407acbe990 (patch) | |
| tree | b5b399a427584f7a78258601fa3d645b3a7ae16d /src/include | |
| parent | [interface] Unplug interface before calling intf_close() in intf_shutdown() (diff) | |
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[netdevice] Limit MTU by hardware maximum frame length
Separate out the concept of "hardware maximum supported frame length"
and "configured link MTU", and limit the latter according to the
former.
In networks where the DHCP-supplied link MTU is inconsistent with the
hardware or driver capabilities (e.g. a network using jumbo frames),
this will result in iPXE advertising a TCP MSS consistent with a size
that can actually be received.
Note that the term "MTU" is typically used to refer to the maximum
length excluding the link-layer headers; we adopt this usage.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h b/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h index a1d207ff..d498ab69 100644 --- a/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h +++ b/src/include/ipxe/netdevice.h @@ -397,9 +397,16 @@ struct net_device { struct retry_timer link_block; /** Maximum packet length * - * This length includes any link-layer headers. + * This is the maximum packet length (including any link-layer + * headers) supported by the hardware. */ size_t max_pkt_len; + /** Maximum transmission unit length + * + * This is the maximum transmission unit length (excluding any + * link-layer headers) configured for the link. + */ + size_t mtu; /** TX packet queue */ struct list_head tx_queue; /** Deferred TX packet queue */ |