Why don't the packets leaving a virtual machine's network interface honor the MTU value set for the interface?
Issue
- MTU value for "eth0" interface of the VM is "1500". However, the packets leaving from the interface are often of the size 7000.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2
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