Re: Maximum size for sk_buff?

[Kiran Kumar <immidi_kiran@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Shine Mohamed <shinemohamed_j@naturesoft.net>
wrote:
> The maximum size of the skbuff depends on the
> underlying 
> protocol used.
> 
> For example if the network device is an ethernet
> card 
> which using the protocol IEEE802.3 the maximum size
> is 1536 KB (Pls check for the exact value) per
> packet.
> 
> And if another standards such as IEEE802.11 it
> varies.

  skbuff is a generic data structure used in the
networking code. It is not specific to
ethernet/whatever link layer protocol being used. For
eg., it can store all the fragments of an IP datagram.
skbuffs can definitely be larger (than this 1536 bytes
limit).


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Regards,
Kiran Kumar Immidi

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