[PATCH v10 17/19] net/pcap: clarify maximum received packet

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Fri Jan 30 02:12:33 CET 2026


The driver has constant RTE_ETH_PCAP_SNAPSHOT_LEN with is set
to the largest value the pcap library will return, so that should
also be the largest receive buffer.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
---
 drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
index 5e72a985e4..415de46e22 100644
--- a/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/pcap/pcap_ethdev.c
@@ -820,10 +820,11 @@ eth_dev_info(struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
 
 	dev_info->if_index = internals->if_index;
 	dev_info->max_mac_addrs = 1;
-	dev_info->max_rx_pktlen = (uint32_t) -1;
+	dev_info->max_rx_pktlen = RTE_ETH_PCAP_SNAPSHOT_LEN;
 	dev_info->max_rx_queues = dev->data->nb_rx_queues;
 	dev_info->max_tx_queues = dev->data->nb_tx_queues;
 	dev_info->min_rx_bufsize = 0;
+	dev_info->max_mtu = RTE_ETH_PCAP_SNAPSHOT_LEN - RTE_ETHER_HDR_LEN;
 	dev_info->tx_offload_capa = RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_MULTI_SEGS |
 		RTE_ETH_TX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_INSERT;
 	dev_info->rx_offload_capa = RTE_ETH_RX_OFFLOAD_VLAN_STRIP |
-- 
2.51.0



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