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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: Wrong padding of short packets send by a tagged-vlan interface?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:06:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4872854F.80603@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807072210470.15459@bizon.gios.gov.pl>

Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem that I'm not able to connect from selected linux hosts 
> to a newly installed Netware 6.5 server. After two days of debugging I 
> discovered that the problem seems to be caused by an insufficient 
> padding of a .1q tagged packets.

Last time this came up I looked up the RFC and according to it
there is no need to pad beyond the normal 60 + 4, vlan tag or
not.

This is a bug in your intervening switch and/or Netware unless you actually see packets
leaving Linux with less than 60 + 4 bytes.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-07 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-07 21:01 Wrong padding of short packets send by a tagged-vlan interface? Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-07-07 21:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-07 21:40   ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2008-07-07 21:54     ` David Miller
2008-07-07 21:06 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2008-07-07 21:12   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-07-07 21:29   ` Krzysztof Oledzki

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