Request for ethernet drivers in general.

From: Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 01:12:55 EST

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

Thanks,
Ben 

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Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)  http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear 
Author of ScryMUD:  scry.wanfear.com 4444        (Released under GPL)
http://scry.wanfear.com

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