Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:29:25 +0100 (CET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@ivision.co.uk> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.1Q VLANs Message-ID: <200002031729.SAA11195@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002031720250.248-100000@avengers.ivision.co.uk> from Jasper Wallace at "Feb 3, 2000 05:21:46 pm"
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> The problem is that a tagged packet will be bigger than 1500 bytes, so most > nic's will drop it as an error, the fxp's can have a flag set that stops > this behaviour. it's not the nic (ie hardware), in many cases it is just the driver which drops the pkt as an error. cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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