Why large UDP6 packets are malformed over virtio?
Issue
- UDP6 large packets are malformed over virtio when using virtio_net in guest
Environment
- RHEL 6.1 OS providing KVM service.
- RHEL5.6 KVM guest using virtio_net as network driver.
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Logical Path of Packet in Network Stack
Application-> eth2 -> virtio_net[guest] -> vnet2[host]-> br2 -> eth0.600 -> eth0 -> bnx2 -> Broadcom 5771x 10G -> switch MTU 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1504 1504
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