Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:23:27PM +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote:
>
>>It contains (following) (rediffed) working tulip mtu patch :)
>>
>
> That patch solved my problem.
>
> With that driver, the MTU still shows as 1500 bytes, while I thought
> that patch would cause the MTU to go up to 1504 bytes.
The ethX MTU should remain 1500 to not break non-vlan traffic. Secretly,
though, the NIC should pass frames that are 4 bytes bigger.
> Will this patch be in the mainstream kernel soon? Or could it have
> negative effects?
I wonder if we could somehow make the changes a module option even
if Jeff won't allow it in by default....
Most other drivers have the same issues....
Ben
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
>
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