Re: eepro100.c with patch suitable for vlan?

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Christian Hammers wrote:

> I tried kernel 2.4.20 with VLAN but was unable to send 1500byte packets
> probably due to mtu problems.
> 
> I found the following patch. It's from 2000 so I wondered if it is
> discouraged to use it because it seems not to be incorporated yet.

This patch turns off the hardware packet length check.
It will allow you to receive the oversized VLAN packets, but makes the
system vulnerable to malicious oversized packets.  Don't use the patch
on an unprotected production machine.

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