[vortex] Re: [eepro100] MTU more then 1500

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:13:50PM +0100,
 Gerd Aschemann <gerd@aschemann.net> wrote 
 a message of 12 lines which said:

> > is there a way to increase MTU to more then 1500? is it a harware or
> > driver issue?

It is a driver issue. I did not try the following patch but it seems
simple:

http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan/cisco_howto.html#targ3
 
> No, Ethernet does not allow for larger packets by specification ...

You forget 802.1q. Many Linux Ethernet drivers fail to perform
properly on VLANs because of that :-( (FreeBSD zealots tell me there is
no problem with their system.)