Dale, On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 10:24 -0400, Dale Ghent wrote: > It would be great if one could: > > 1) set the max allowed MTU through dladm, or better yet, stop > pretending that 1500 is the universal max and just let it be set with > ifconfig, with 1500 being the default absent the mtu argument being > specified. > > 2) A dladm linkprop (read only) that shows the max MTU that is > supported by the driver. The drivers will have to advertise this, > which is a good thing - drivers should be advertising their > capabilities in a consistent and standard way. MTU, speeds supported, > any hardware checksum or offload capabilities, maybe even rings active > and configurable.
dladm already does both of these things (via the mtu link property). The discussion is about going beyond that and providing some sort of optimum values for this existing property. -Seb _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
