Re: Request for ethernet drivers in general.

From: Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 22:49:50 EST

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    >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:

    Ben> Howdy, I'm working on adding 802.1Q VLAN support to the Linux
    Ben> kernel, and need some driver help, if possible.

    Ben> The problem is that VLAN pkts need a extra 4 bytes in their
    Ben> header, and many (not all) drivers will not accept the larger
    Ben> pkts. This means that to actually get them to work I have to set
    Ben> the MTU on the VLAN interface to 1496, instead of 1500. This is
    Ben> a hack at best, and really means that the driver/card combo will
    Ben> not work in a production VLAN environment.

    Ehhm, are you trying to transmit packets which are outside the
    Ethernet spec? That doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to
    me. If you want to send an extra 4 bytes of date, you have to nick
    that from the data area in order to be within spec.

    Jes

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