On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:00:36AM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> David Young wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:06:25AM -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> >   
> >> In general, avoid re(4) like the plague.  They _are_ cheap, though, and
> >> they'll work in a pinch.  sk(4) seems to work pretty well for me, and
> >>     
> >
> > What is wrong with re(4)?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >   
> I've had various problems with them - the one I can recall offhand is
> claiming to support an MTU of 9000, while I was only ever able to get
> them to pass about 7000 bytes.  That said, I have a desktop machine in
> which re(4) is the main card, and it seems to work well enough for a
> light load.
> 
> +j
> 
> 

This is expected behavior, the Realtek Gig chipset can only handle a
maximum frame size of 7440 which translates to a MTU of 7422.