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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@zugschlus.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tulip and VLAN tagging - accepting larger frames without affecting higher layers?
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 11:04:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB87347.7000603@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16veWm-00052F-00@janet.int.toplink-plannet.de> <20020411152327.GA600@stingr.net> <20020413135430.A5521@torres.ka0.zugschlus.de>



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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      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-13 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-11 13:22 tulip and VLAN tagging - accepting larger frames without affecting higher layers? Marc Haber
2002-04-11 15:23 ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-04-13 11:54   ` Marc Haber
2002-04-13 12:04     ` Paul P Komkoff Jr
2002-04-13 18:04     ` Ben Greear [this message]

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