From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong padding of short packets send by a tagged-vlan interface?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:12:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487286BF.5040407@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4872854F.80603@candelatech.com>
Ben Greear wrote:
> 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.
Yes, its probably not on the Linux side. It would be interesting
to know where exactly the bug is happening though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 21:12 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
2008-07-07 21:12 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-07-07 21:29 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
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