Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:16:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: tim@iafrica.com.na, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet MTUs > 1500? Message-ID: <200007051516.RAA77416@info.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <14691.13877.728401.523160@trooper.velocet.net> from David Gilbert at "Jul 5, 2000 09:20:53 am"
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> Kevin> Louis has it exactly right. 802.3 was modified a couple of > Kevin> years ago to allow for a maximum frame size of 1522 octets, up > Kevin> from the original 1518. This was to allow the VLAN information > Kevin> to fit in the frame. just curious, what do we do when we have multiple encapsulation ? (i.e. is this allowed ?) cheers luigi -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- Luigi RIZZO, luigi@iet.unipi.it . Dip. di Ing. dell'Informazione http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ . Universita` di Pisa TEL/FAX: +39-050-568.533/522 . via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) Mobile +39-347-0373137 -----------------------------------+------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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