That wouldnt work since anybody connected to portA and sending a 1500 byte
packet, would be unable to do so.

Is there a known limitation wherein i can increase the MTU of an internal
bridge port?

Dave

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Joe Stringer <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Have you tried decreasing the MTU of portA such that packets are
> encapsulated they're <=1500B?
>
> On 23 July 2015 at 08:19, Dave Waters <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Its not. But how do i ensure that my packet does not get dropped
> somewhere
> > downstream, since i have now increased it beyond the original value?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:49 PM, gowrishankar
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thursday 23 July 2015 04:16 AM, Dave Waters wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have two ports in my OVS bridge. I receive packets from one port
> >>> (portA) and i send them out of the other (portB). When i send out the
> >>> packets, they are VXLAN tunneled to the other end.
> >>>
> >>> Now, the default MTU of all ports (including the bridge port) is 1500
> in
> >>> my setup.
> >>>
> >>> The issue is that when i get a 1500 byte packet on portA, i try to push
> >>> it out on portB after slapping on the VXLAN headers. This results in a
> >>> packet size thats greater than what portB can handle, and hence the
> packets
> >>> are dropped.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is increasing MTU of portB to 1550 (to accommodate additional 50 bytes
> >> when no vlan taged) a constraint in your setup ?
> >>
> >>
> >>> I know that OVS does not handle IP fragmentation/reassembly, so how do
> we
> >>> deal with this situation? I dont think we can rely on path MTU
> discovery
> >>> since not all applications do PMTU before spewing out packets. Any
> ideas,
> >>> anybody?
> >>>
> >>> Warm regards,
> >>> Dave
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Gowrishankar M
> >>
> >
> >
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