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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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