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

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

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

From: Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>
To: tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Cc: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost, gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/46961: Please support BCM57762 Ethernet 
arapter(Apple'sThunderbolt Ethernet Adapter)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:52:08 +0100 (BST)

 On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 02:53:10AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
  > >  One possibility is for supporting PPPoE.
  > 
  > I've already checked that sys/net/if_pppoe.c has:
  > >> #define PPPOE_MAXMTU     (ETHERMTU - PPPOE_OVERHEAD)
  >  :
  > >>  sc->sc_sppp.pp_if.if_mtu = PPPOE_MAXMTU;
  > so I guess pppoe packets won't be larger than ETHER_MAX_LEN.
 
 Our pppoe implementation can use slightly larger packets.
 
 There is code lower down in sys/net/if_pppoe.c that tests against
 PPPOE_MAXMTU.
 
 Please don't change this.
 
 Robert Swindells