From owner-freebsd-net Mon Oct 23 10:52:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D5237B479 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:52:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA53041; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:52:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 13:52:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200010231752.NAA53041@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "C. Stephen Gunn" Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Patch] VLAN MTU1500 patch for FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE and later In-Reply-To: <20001019151439.A17464@waterspout.com> References: <200010191411.e9JEBZ817011@lavender.sanpei.org> <20001019151439.A17464@waterspout.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < 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 -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message