> On 11 Jul 2016, at 15:52, Sam Yaple <sam...@yaple.net> wrote:
> 
> After lots of fun on IRC I have given up this battle. I am giving up quickly 
> because frickler has purposed a workaround (or better solution depending on 
> who you ask). So for all of you keeping track at home, if you want your vxlan 
> and your vlan networks to have the same MTU, here are the relevant options to 
> set as of Mitaka.
> 
> [DEFAULT]
> global_physnet_mtu = 1550
> [ml2]
> path_mtu = 1550
> physical_network_mtus = physnet1:1500

I believe your request is corner case, and as long as we have a way to solve 
the issue for you, we should be ok.

Note that if you use IPv6 endpoints, you need to use a higher value for 
path_mtu:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/320121/

> 
> This should go without saying, but i'll say it anyway: Your underlying 
> network interface must be at least 1550 MTU for the above config to result in 
> all instances receiving 1500 mtu regardless of network type. If you want some 
> extra IRC reading, there was a more extensive conversation about this [1]. 
> Good luck, you'll need it.
> 
> [1] 
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-neutron/%23openstack-neutron.2016-07-11.log.html#t2016-07-11T13:39:45
> 
> Sam Yaple
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Fox, Kevin M <kevin....@pnnl.gov> wrote:
> I fought for two weeks to figure out why one of my clouds didn't seem to want 
> to work properly. It was in fact one of those helpful souls you mention below 
> filtering out PMTU's. I had to play with some rather gnarly iptables rules to 
> workaround the issue. -j TCPMSS --clamp-mss-to-pmtu....
> 
> So it does happen.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin
> 
> From: Ian Wells [ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk]
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 12:04 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Neutron and MTU advertisements -- post newton
> 
> On 11 July 2016 at 11:49, Sean M. Collins <s...@coreitpro.com> wrote:
> Sam Yaple wrote:
> > In this situation, since you are mapping real-ips and the real world runs
> > on 1500 mtu
> 
> Don't be so certain about that assumption. The Internet is a very big
> and diverse place....
> 
> OK, I'll contradict myself now - the original question wasn't L2 transit.  
> Never mind.
> 
> That 'inter' bit is actually rather important.  MTU applies to a layer 2 
> domain, and routing is designed such that the MTUs on the two ports of a 
> router are irrelevant to each other.  What the world does has no bearing on 
> the MTU I want on my L2 domain, and so Sam's point - 'I must choose the MTU 
> other people use' - is simply invalid.  You might reasonably want your 
> Neutron router to have an external MTU of 1500, though, to do what he asks in 
> the face of some thoughtful soul filtering out PMTU exceeded messages.  I 
> still think it comes back to the same thing as I suggested in my other mail.
> 
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