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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:21:46 +0000 (BST)
From:      Jasper Wallace <jasper@ivision.co.uk>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 802.1Q VLANs
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002031720250.248-100000@avengers.ivision.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002021613060.479-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> > oh well, with the vlan code in -stable i could ping, but tcp or udp
> > packets would eventually panic the machine, it's fine with the patches
> > from the above url.
>=20
> Does the kernel patch work with any other adapters?  I'm not sure I see
> the need to patch if_fxp.

From=20what i've heard it *only* works with fxp...

The problem is that a tagged packet will be bigger than 1500 bytes, so most
nic's will drop it as an error, the fxp's can have a flag set that stops
this behaviour.

--=20
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