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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:21:45 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        snap-users@kame.net
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   MUT of stf (Re: (KAME-snap 8815) Re: Weird memory exhaustion with FreeBSD  4.10-STABLE)
Message-ID:  <y7vd5zenpzq.wl@ocean.jinmei.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409291056060.32071-100000@netcore.fi>
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Forgot to respond to this point:

>>>>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:59:32 +0300 (EEST), 
>>>>> Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> said:

> Speaking of 6to4, if_stf.c does not support setting the MTU, because
> there's no ioctl handler for it.  It wouldn't IMHO hurt to be able to
> raise it from the glued-in default of 1280..

According to itojun (the principal author of the stf driver), it's on
purpose.  He said the reason for the restriction is because stf
normally had multiple (anonymous) destinations and we couldn't
pre-negotiate the size of the receiving buffer at the other ends.

(No further questions on this to me, please:-)

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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