[ECOS] How to change MTU?

[Birahim Larou Fall]

Why you don't use ioctl  command  with SIOCSIFMTU(arg2)  as command to 
change  MTU. See " if_ethersubr.c" in freebsd sources.
You have to fill the ifreq struct (for the interface you want to change 
the MTU)

Fall Birahim
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Elsys Design for SCM Microsystems
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蔡述宪 <caishuxian@water.pku.edu.cn> 
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[ECOS] How to change MTU?






Hello, everyone!

  I am now implementing a router using eCos. I want to change the MTU 
of one of my two network interfaces. I tried to do that using the 
socket to kernel routing table, here is my code:

    //for route add and delete 
    u_int32_t g,m,d;

    int routes;
    struct {
                struct rt_msghdr                 hdr;
                                 struct sockaddr_in              dst;
                                 struct sockaddr_in              gway;
                                 struct sockaddr_in              mask;
                                 } rtmsg; 

                 if ((routes = socket(PF_ROUTE, SOCK_RAW, AF_INET)) < 0) {
                                 diag_printf("Error: route socket\n");
                 }

  //change route for MTU of eth1

                 g = 0x64300100;
                 m = 0xFFFFFF00;
                 d = 0x64300100;
                 g = htonl(g);
                 m = htonl(m);
                 d = htonl(d);
 
                 memset(&rtmsg, 0, sizeof(rtmsg));
 
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_type = RTM_CHANGE;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_flags = RTF_UP | RTF_HOST |RTF_STATIC;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_version = RTM_VERSION;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_seq = ++rtm_seq;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_addrs = RTA_DST | RTA_GATEWAY | 
RTA_NETMASK;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_rmx.rmx_locks = 0;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_rmx.rmx_mtu = 1000; 
                 rtmsg.dst.sin_len = sizeof(rtmsg.dst);
                 rtmsg.dst.sin_family = AF_INET;
                 rtmsg.dst.sin_addr.s_addr = d;
                 rtmsg.gway.sin_len = sizeof(rtmsg.gway);
                 rtmsg.gway.sin_family = AF_INET;
                 rtmsg.gway.sin_addr.s_addr = g;
                 rtmsg.mask.sin_len = sizeof(rtmsg.dst);
                 rtmsg.mask.sin_family = AF_INET;
                 rtmsg.mask.sin_addr.s_addr = m;
                 rtmsg.hdr.rtm_msglen = sizeof(rtmsg);


                 if (write(routes, &rtmsg, sizeof(rtmsg)) < 0) {
                                 diag_printf("Error:route change 
failed\n");
                 }
 
                 close(routes);


  It seems that the write operation is successful, because I got no 
error message. But the MTU of my interface didn't change after that.
  Following is the output from show_network_tables():


Routing tables
Destination     Gateway         Mask            Flags    Interface
100.48.1.0      100.48.1.0      255.255.255.0   U        eth1
100.48.1.2      100.48.1.2                      UH       eth0
127.0.0.0       127.0.0.1       255.0.0.0       UG       lo0
127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1                       UH       lo0
162.105.75.0    162.105.75.0    255.255.255.0   U        eth0
162.105.78.0    100.48.1.2      255.255.255.0   UGS      eth1
Interface statistics
eth0    IP: 162.105.75.1, Broadcast: 162.105.75.255, Netmask: 
255.255.255.0
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500, Metric: 0
        Rx - Packets: 0, Bytes: 0, Tx - Packets: 0, Bytes: 0
eth1    IP: 100.48.1.1, Broadcast: 100.48.1.255, Netmask: 255.255.255.0
        UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500, Metric: 0
        Rx - Packets: 0, Bytes: 0, Tx - Packets: 0, Bytes: 0
lo0     IP: 127.0.0.1, Broadcast: 127.0.0.1, Netmask: 255.0.0.0
        UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 16384, Metric: 0
        Rx - Packets: 0, Bytes: 0, Tx - Packets: 0, Bytes: 0


Why the MTU change didn't take effect? The MTU of eth1 is still 1500 
but not 1000. Is there something wrong with my code? 

Anybody done similar operation before? Thank you very much for your 
suggestion!


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