Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 3/4] ionic: restrict received packets to mtu size
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2020-01-07 19:45:40
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Date: 2020-01-07 19:45:40
Hi Andrew,
Hi Shannon
In my experience the driver typically tells the NIC about the current max_frame size (e.g. MTU + ETH_HLEN), the NIC only copies max_frame bytes, and the NIC returns an error indication on a packets that had more than max_frame.
Having played around with a few different NICs for DSA, it seems more
like 75% don't care about the 'MRU' and will happily accept bigger
frames.
Anyway, it does not hurt to drop received frames bigger than what you
can transmit.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Andrew