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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: MTU > 1500 ? what the.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 1997 22:37:04 PST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:19:36 -0800
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>The actual maximum Ethernet packet size is 1516 bytes (1500 bytes of
>payload, 6 bytes of src, 6 bytes of dst, 2 bytes of type, and 2 bytes
>of CRC).  tcpdump doesn't report the CRC which is why you see 1514.

   Uh, ethernet CRC is 32 bits, right?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project