Re: kern/46961: Please support BCM57762 Ethernet arapter(Apple'sThunderbolt Ethernet Adapter)

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/46961; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: 
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/46961: Please support BCM57762 Ethernet 
arapter(Apple'sThunderbolt Ethernet Adapter)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:00:15 +0100

 On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:38:57PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 > 
 > >  Allowing 'slightly overlong' packets is useful for certain protocols,
 > >  I'm sure I remember something else, as well as VLAN, extending the
 > >  maximum length.
 > 
 > Then shouldn't it be defined in MI sys/net headers?
 > Why don't we only have ETHERCAP_VLAN_MTU and ETHERCAP_JUMBO_MTU
 > in the capability flag?
 
 I'm sure 'slightly jumbo' packets came up recently - but I can't
 remember why.
 One possibility is for supporting PPPoE.
 
        David
 
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