netdev - Re: change the way e1000 is handling short VLAN frames

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Message-Id: <1190382366.4231.13.camel@localhost>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:46:06 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Emil Micek <emil.micek@...jasek.cz>
Cc:	"auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	netdev mailing list <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: Re: change the way e1000 is handling short VLAN frames

On Fri, 2007-21-09 at 09:37 -0400, jamal wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-21-09 at 14:50 +0200, Emil Micek wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 07:59 -0400, jamal wrote:
> 
> > > Which would make it a bug. AFAIK, the minimum VLAN tagged packet going
> > > out is 68 bytes.
> > Are you sure about this? 
> 
> This is what i have always seen. 

If the first email caused confusion - so will this ;->
I have never used e1000 for vlan tagging. My view is that if it emits
(instead of 68B) 64B packets with tags then it is buggy and needs to be
fixed. Hope that makes sense.


cheers,
jamal

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