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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] r8169: Large Send enablement
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:50:59 -0500
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Jon Mason wrote:
> This patch enables driver support of MTUs greater than 1500.  Though the 
> adapter documentation says that maximum MTU is 16k, the largest packet I 
> could send was 7440.  So, I am setting that as the max mtu until I can figure 
> out why the adapter misbehaves with packets larger than 7440.

this is dependent on hardware FIFO sizes...