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Date:      Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:05:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 802.1Q VLANs
Message-ID:  <200002041605.LAA68266@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0002041104001.11095-100000@haddock.euitt.upm.es>
References:  <200002032025.PAA63379@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <Pine.OSF.4.21.0002041104001.11095-100000@haddock.euitt.upm.es>

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<<On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:23:51 +0100 (MET), "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es> said:

> make sure that the NIC won't drop oversized frames so it can examine them,
> but if it sees a 1522-byte frame that doesn't belong to a 802.1Q VLAN it
> will drop that frame (as well as any frame longer than 1522 bytes).

No, it should not.  When debugging networks, all frames should be
made available (including true error frames, although that's a bit
harder).

-GAWollman

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