Re: [PATCH][RFC] packets received from cipe device are exactly 5 bytes to big

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh,AT,gnu,DOT,org>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:45:41PM +0100, Olaf Titz wrote:

> Of course there must be another bug if that fixes it for you. Perhaps
> something Ethernet-specific.

It's really easy to reproduce..

> > This patch _finally_ makes it possible for me to ping with 5k packets over
> > a bridged CIPE tunnel (with the MTU forced up to the ethernet MTU, see
> > separate email) by the way, so I'm really wondering whether anyone
> > has ever put this into production use succesfully.  But that's a wholly
> 
> At least _I_ have not put that into production use. ;-) I have tested
> bridging but surely not all corner cases like maximum sized packets or
> fragmentation. Since these are a recurring problem with all kinds of
> tunnels I wouldn't be surprised of any bugs or incompatibilities in
> that area.

Well, I tried vtund and that worked right away.

cheers,
Lennert