Re: oversize frame

["Aaron J. Grier" <agrier%poofygoof.com@localhost>]

(necromancing old threads...)

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:09:59AM -0500, Michael T. Davis wrote:
>       Every so often, the NetBSD-6 kernel reports...
> 
> Nov  8 09:44:17 fw /netbsd: wm1: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)
> 
> It only ever cites wm1 and the length is always 1518.  Since the MTU
> for this interface is set to 1500, doesn't this mean that another
> system attached to that interface is generating an invalid packet,
> presumably due to a mis-configuration?

FWIW I see this on nfe on my sunfire x2200m2.  the nfe is attached by a
vlan, but vlan packets are 1504 bytes -- 1518 seems a very strange
number.

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