Re: [Users] Configuring MTU
On 03/30/2012 06:58 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Livnat Peer wrote:
> On 29/03/12 22:16, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to configure MTU on a guest by guest basis? All our bond
>> interfaces are configured as 9000 byte MTU, but we have a few guests
>> that don't support that and need 1500 byte setting.
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> There are patches in Gerrit for configuring the MTU on a Network basis.
> I hope these patches will be merged next week.
Great!!
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,2207
>
> Any reason you want to configure it on a guest by guest basis and not on
> a network basis?
Sure, some of our VMs such as Acme Packet OSE have custom kernels and
don't support jumbo frames.
I think you would need to separate these to another logical network with
a non jumbo frames mtu size.
you can use vlan's and connect both logical networks to the same
physical interface.