Subject: Re: xircom error
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2001 19:53:26
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:46:46PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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.

Thank you - that's what also changed :)

Patrick