Re: MTU more then 1500
Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel,gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Organization | NIC France |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:13:50PM +0100, Gerd Aschemann <[email protected]> wrote a message of 12 lines which said: > > is there a way to increase MTU to more then 1500? is it a harware or > > driver issue? It is a driver issue. I did not try the following patch but it seems simple: http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan/cisco_howto.html#targ3 > No, Ethernet does not allow for larger packets by specification ... You forget 802.1q. Many Linux Ethernet drivers fail to perform properly on VLANs because of that :-( (FreeBSD zealots tell me there is no problem with their system.)