When setting up a GRE tunnel through the 'tunnel' method, the mtu parameter is not respected

[Giorgos Mavrikas]

When setting up the following gre tunnel, the mtu parameter is not set.

auto gtun
iface gtun inet tunnel
  mode gre
  address 172.19.6.1
  dstaddr 172.19.6.2
  netmask 255.255.255.255
  endpoint xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  local yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy
  mtu 1396
  ttl 255

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ifupdown 0.7~beta2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-virtual 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-virtual x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu14
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 1 16:13:51 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ifupdown
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ifupdown - 0.7.5ubuntu2

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ifupdown (0.7.5ubuntu2) raring; urgency=low

  * Update network-interface-security job to stop when the parent job is
    stopped itself. This avoids leftover instances. (LP: #1065684)
  * Set mtu of tunnel devices. (LP: #1074048)
  * Actually set the new calculated value for duplicate entries. (LP: #1086517)
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:53:56 -0500

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Sounds like people want this fixed in 12.04 (and by extension 12.10).

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that release