Re: tulip and VLAN tagging - accepting larger frames without affecting higher layers?

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Marc Haber wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:23:27PM +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:
> 
>>It contains (following) (rediffed) working tulip mtu patch :)
>>
> 
> That patch solved my problem.
> 
> With that driver, the MTU still shows as 1500 bytes, while I thought
> that patch would cause the MTU to go up to 1504 bytes.


The ethX MTU should remain 1500 to not break non-vlan traffic.  Secretly,
though, the NIC should pass frames that are 4 bytes bigger.


> Will this patch be in the mainstream kernel soon? Or could it have
> negative effects?


I wonder if we could somehow make the changes a module option even
if Jeff won't allow it in by default....

Most other drivers have the same issues....

Ben


> 
> Greetings
> Marc
> 
> 


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