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From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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In a recent experiment w/ Jumbo frames, I found out that sending ip
frames completely ignores the MTU set on host routes.  This makes it
difficult (or next to impossible) to support a network that has both
regular and jumbo frames on it as you can't restrict some hosts to the
smaller frames.

I now have a patch to ip_output that makes it obay the MTU set on the
route instead of that of the interface.

Please review: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/ip_mtu.diff

Thanks.

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