Re: eepro driver and 1522 byte packets

Narayanaswamy, Naga (Naga) wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I have a question about eepro driver. If it receives a VLAN tagged packet
> of size 1522 (including CRC), the max possible size for VLAN packets,
> will the chip (and driver) accept and give to a higher layer function 
> (assuming one exists).
> 
> I want to build a ethernet bridge, with a few ethernet interfaces on a linux box
> and want to be able to bridge vlan tagged packets as well. In this case, 
> there is no higher layer involved. The bridge code will just look at src/dst mac addresses
> and will be oblivious to the type 0x8100 on vlan packets. 
> 
> Thanks!

Last I heard, it will not work, but the e100 works.  Also, when setting up your
bridging, beware that the same MAC can exist on different VLANs, so you will probably
want to set up vlan interfaces and specifically add them to bridges.

Ben


> 
> Naga Narayanaswamy
> Lucent Technologies
> 8301 Professional Place
> Landover, MD 20785
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