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
>
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