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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:04:25 +0000
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
To:        Sean C. Farley <scf@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: tap(4) SIOCSIFMTU patch
Message-ID:  <188BDECC-1064-4421-8687-F9759E25FD1F@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903122048230.1704@thor.farley.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903122048230.1704@thor.farley.org>

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On 13 Mar 2009, at 01:54, Sean C. Farley wrote:

> Here is a patch[1] that will allow the MTU to be set higher than  
> 1500 on a tap(4) interface.  I ran into the need to do this when I  
> had em0 set to 9000 and tried to bridge em0 with tap0 (MTU 1500) for  
> QEMU.  A bridge interface will not allow interfaces with different  
> MTU's to be added to it.
>
> Since I have touched little inside the kernel, I thought it best if  
> others take a look at it first.
>
> Sean
>  1. http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/if_tap-SIOCSIFMTU.patch

This looks ok. I'm assuming bridge now works for you.

Regards
--
Rui Paulo


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