From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 5 8:17:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67A637BF26 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:16:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA77416; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:16:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200007051516.RAA77416@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Ethernet MTUs > 1500? In-Reply-To: <14691.13877.728401.523160@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "Jul 5, 2000 09:20:53 am" To: David Gilbert Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:16:41 +0200 (CEST) Cc: tim@iafrica.com.na, Kevin Oberman , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Joerg Micheel , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Kevin> Louis has it exactly right. 802.3 was modified a couple of > Kevin> years ago to allow for a maximum frame size of 1522 octets, up > Kevin> from the original 1518. This was to allow the VLAN information > Kevin> to fit in the frame. just curious, what do we do when we have multiple encapsulation ? (i.e. is this allowed ?) cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message