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Date:      Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:39:54 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
Subject:   Re: MTU > 1500 ? what the.. 
Message-ID:  <199703100739.XAA15696@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:21:55 PST." <97Mar9.232201pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> 

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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



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