Subject: Re: kern/29660: vlans broken on bge(4)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/13/2005 11:29:02
The following reply was made to PR kern/29660; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/29660: vlans broken on bge(4)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:28:04 +0100

 On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 07:49:25PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
 > [strangely I didn't receive Manuel's comment via email, but by checking
 > the gnats database.. Shouldn't it be sent on automatically?]
 > 
 > Anyway, bge(4) knows about vlans, so it doesn't have the "can't cope with
 > the extra 4 bytes so reduce mtu" problem. Both bge and vlan interfaces
 > are set to 1500.
 
 I remember that some revisions of a chip coulnd't cope with it, but I don't
 remember which chip this was. This is why I checked.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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