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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:52:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Patch] VLAN MTU1500 patch for FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and later
Message-ID:  <200010231752.NAA53041@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20001019151439.A17464@waterspout.com>
References:  <200010191411.e9JEBZ817011@lavender.sanpei.org> <20001019151439.A17464@waterspout.com>

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<<On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:14:39 -0500, "C. Stephen Gunn" <csg@waterspout.com> said:

> There isn't currently a mechanism in FreeBSD to either allow the
> physical device to report what its maximum receive framesize is

Yes, there is.  An interface which is prepared to accept frames larger
than 1514 octets can so indicate in the if_data.ifi_hdrlen field of
its interface structure.

-GAWollman

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