Subject: Re: kern/29660: vlans broken on bge(4)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/13/2005 11:29:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/29660; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/29660: vlans broken on bge(4)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:28:04 +0100
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:49:25PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> [strangely I didn't receive Manuel's comment via email, but by checking
> the gnats database.. Shouldn't it be sent on automatically?]
>
> Anyway, bge(4) knows about vlans, so it doesn't have the "can't cope with
> the extra 4 bytes so reduce mtu" problem. Both bge and vlan interfaces
> are set to 1500.
I remember that some revisions of a chip coulnd't cope with it, but I don't
remember which chip this was. This is why I checked.
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--