Subject: Re: 802.1Q & ETHER_MAX_LEN
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/03/2000 15:56:27
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:08:31PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> This looks good, but raises another issue: what about users who want
> to use VLANs even though their hardware driver doesn't advertise the
> ETHERCAP_VLAN_MTU capability (either because the hardware really
> doesn't support it or because the driver hasn't been written to deal
> with it)? They might be willing to live with all the consequences of
> a 1496 byte MTU.
I thought about that, and added support for doing that.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>