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| From: | Paolo Bonzini |
| Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] [slirp] Make ARP replies at least 64 bytes long |
| Date: | Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:21:10 +0200 |
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On 09/20/2010 01:43 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:33:26PM +0200, Hervé Poussineau wrote:IEEE 802.3 standard requires Ethernet frames to be at least 64 bytes long. If it is not the case, they will be considered as runt frames, and may be ignored by netcard and/or OS Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau<address@hidden>IMO slirp is not the best place for this, e.g. virtio-net does not need the padding.
I don't think it matters if virtio-net needs it or net; slirp should comply to RFC and standards, so it should make frames the correct size.
Paolo
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