Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 10:02:38 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: eyurtese@turkuamk.fi Cc: sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no, michaelx.l.wright@intel.com, fkittred@gwi.net, kudzu@tenebras.com, dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: wi0 and mtu setting [bad idea] Message-ID: <20030106.100238.69366019.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10301041436440.19242-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> References: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F07DE29@exchange.wanglobal.net> <Pine.A41.4.10.10301041436440.19242-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
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Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> writes:
: Yes, actually this is why I asked first about MTU settings in wi. I use
: PPPoE and it has 8bytes overhead. It could be nice to set MTU to 1508 so
: 1500 byte ethernet frames can be encapsualted in PPPoE without
: fragmentation.
:
: I just dont understand why FreeBSD people have to make this wi driver so
: tight in standarts even though there are wireless cards which support
: non-standard(and sometimes nice) things which can be useful. I definetely
: disagree that something should be in standard so you will allow setting of
: it!
Dude, you are being way too confrontational here. Since I am the wi
driver maintainer, and I haven't said I wouldn't support this, you are
just being an ass rather than doing things in a way that would
motivate people to allow you the flexibility to do.
I'm not conversant on all the technical issues, but so far I've missed
patches that I could test to see if they cause problems or not.
Warner
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