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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:19:50 +0200 (WET)
From:      Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no, michaelx.l.wright@intel.com, fkittred@gwi.net, kudzu@tenebras.com, dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu
Subject:   Re: wi0 and mtu setting [bad idea]
Message-ID:  <Pine.A41.4.10.10301061918340.116252-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20030106.100238.69366019.imp@bsdimp.com>

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Sorry about that but everybody seemed to disagree to having this option of
1500+ MTU settings in wi driver.

If you will support this, then its just fine for me. I dont complain! =)
Sorry!

Evren

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <Pine.A41.4.10.10301041436440.19242-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
>             Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> writes:
> : Yes, actually this is why I asked first about MTU settings in wi. I use
> : PPPoE and it has 8bytes overhead. It could be nice to set MTU to 1508 so
> : 1500 byte ethernet frames can be encapsualted in PPPoE without
> : fragmentation.
> : 
> : I just dont understand why FreeBSD people have to make this wi driver so
> : tight in standarts even though there are wireless cards which support
> : non-standard(and sometimes nice) things which can be useful. I definetely
> : disagree that something should be in standard so you will allow setting of
> : it!
> 
> Dude, you are being way too confrontational here.  Since I am the wi
> driver maintainer, and I haven't said I wouldn't support this, you are
> just being an ass rather than doing things in a way that would
> motivate people to allow you the flexibility to do.
> 
> I'm not conversant on all the technical issues, but so far I've missed
> patches that I could test to see if they cause problems or not.
> 
> Warner
> 


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