From owner-freebsd-net Thu Feb 3 12:32:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23503F58 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 12:32:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA54272; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:28:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 15:28:18 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Garrett Wollman Cc: "Pedro J. Lobo" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.1Q VLANs In-Reply-To: <200002032025.PAA63379@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message