On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 05:58:24PM -0000, David Laight wrote:
> 
> > Is xi0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518) a sign that the ethernet card
> > is broken in someway, or just something that happens during normal network
> > operation
> 
> Is is more likely that the device driver of the system that SENT the
> packet is broken...
> 
> No ethernet frame should ever contain more then 1516 bytes (including the
> destination address, but excluding the CRC).

It can be 4 bytes larger, if you use 802.1Q VLAN tagging.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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