On Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 02:49 Strahil Nikolov via Users <users@ovirt.org>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I would like to learn more about OVN and especially the maximum MTU that I
> can use in my environment.
>
> Current Setup 4.3.10
> Network was created via UI -> MTU Custom -> 8976 -> Create on External
> Provider -> Connect to Physical Network
>
> So my physical connection is MTU 9000 and I have read that Geneve uses 24
> bits (maybe that's wrong ?) , thus I have reduced the MTU to 8976.
>
>From the internet draft it seems that the tunnel header + reserved bits
comprise 64 bits. A common practice for Geneve implementations  is to use
8900 mtu for VMs when having 9000 mtu physical network.

The draft:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-geneve-08

>
> I did some testing on the VMs and ping with payload of '8914' was the
> maximum I could pass without fragmenting and thus the MTU on the VMs was
> set to 8942.
>
> Did I correctly configure the test network's MTU and am I understanding it
> correctly that we need extra 34 bits inside the network for encapsulation ?
>
> I have checked
> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/network/managed_mtu_for_vm_networks.html
> but I don't see any refference how to calculate the max MTU.
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Strahil Nikolov
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