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Date:      Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:40:10 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vlan0 on em0 has mtu 1496
Message-ID:  <20030418004010.GA25152@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20030417202920.07adb1e0@marble.sentex.ca>
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:34:47PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 05:19 PM 17/04/2003 -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:13:55PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> >> Why does a vlan created against em0 have a mtu of 1496.
> >
> >Because the vlan header takes up 4 bytes.  With em(4) devices it looks
> >like fixing that should be a simple matter of raising the real
> >interface's MTU to 1504.
>=20
> Why the difference in behavior vs how the fxp driver works with respect t=
o=20
> vlans ?

I don't know.  In current both have the VLAN_MTU capability set, but I
don't seem to be getting consistant results from 4.x systems.

-- Brooks

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