From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 3 9:29:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDED3D38 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 09:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA11195; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:29:25 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200002031729.SAA11195@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: 802.1Q VLANs In-Reply-To: from Jasper Wallace at "Feb 3, 2000 05:21:46 pm" To: Jasper Wallace Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:29:25 +0100 (CET) Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Mike Nowlin , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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