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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: MTU > 1500 ? what the.. 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:39:54 -0800
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>Ok, since tcpdump never thinks about the CRC I don't either.  What I

   It's 32 bits...4 bytes, trust me. :-) The total length is 1518 bytes
plus 96bit IFS, 56bit preamble, and a few other bits.

>know for sure is that the Ethernet MTU of 1500 is payload only,
>including none of the header, and the header that tcpdump counts in its
>length is 14 bytes, so 1514 byte packets are exactly MTU-sized.

   Right...

-DG

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