Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:36:58 +0200 | From | Michael Rozhavsky <> | Subject | Re: Request for ethernet drivers in general. |
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Ben Greear wrote: > > Howdy, I'm working on adding 802.1Q VLAN support to the Linux kernel, > and need some driver help, if possible. > > The problem is that VLAN pkts need a extra 4 bytes in their header, and > many (not all) drivers will not accept the larger pkts. This means that > to actually get them to work I have to set the MTU on the VLAN interface > to 1496, instead of 1500. This is a hack at best, and really means that > the driver/card combo will not work in a production VLAN environment. > > When you are working on the drivers, could you see if you can fix > them so they can accept/send the larger pkts? > > If you'd like to download my vlan patch for testing/whatever, > you can find it at: > > http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear/vlan.html
take a look at http://vlan.sourceforge.net/
> > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL) > http://scry.wanfear.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- Regards,
Michael Rozhavsky
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