In message <20001025120256.B1115@dr-evil.z.zembu.com>Jason R Thorpe writes
>On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:40:15AM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
>
> > 1496? Say what? You mean somebody *broke* Ethernet on non-VLAN-capable
> > interfaces?  I really hope not.
>
>No, that's the MTU of the *VLAN* interface, not the underlying Ethernet
>interface.

Then it doesn't acutally do what was asked for.