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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:28:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 802.1Q VLANs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002031527380.479-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <200002032025.PAA63379@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > I'm not sure we want to have the drivers always accept large
> > packets, just because we've compiled a kernel with VLAN devices in it.
> 
> Not because we've compiled a kernel with VLAN devices in it; because
> we've compiled a kernel with a NIC driver that supports large packets.

But do we want a device to -always- accept large frames just because it
supports them?

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