On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:12:10PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

 > Is there other case where we need something like this (different MTU at
 > the hardware level depending on the frame type) ? If not maybe we could just
 > hack something simpler: change ifnet (or maybe, really if_data) to include
 > the max frame length the HW can do; which may be bigger than
 > if_mtu + if_hdrlen. Then extra encap layers such as 802.1Q can use it to
 > recompute a MTU. Anyway we won't be able to have a completely clean separation
 > between 802.1Q and ethernet.

How is this problem really any different than e.g. FDDI using a different
MTU for IP than it does for anything else?

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