On Tue, 27 May 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2003 21:33:11 -0300 (ADT)
> James MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Put a bridge between 2 CISCO devices (router and a switch) where the
> > switch is the trunk end of 2 VLANs.
> >
> > Packets work up to a size of 1470. Any bigger appear to be getting
> > dropped.
> >
> > Bridge mtu seems to only be able to be maxed at 1500. I tried the 2 e100
> > cards on the bridge set at 1504 with no effect.
>
> Bridging does need a bigger MTU, and the bridge driver does not propogate
> the set mtu to the slave ethers. One workaround would be to set the
> mtu of the e100's prior to putting the ether's into the vlan.
>
> I will fix this in 2.5.
Thanks for the quick response Stephen.
Does this mean an MTU of 1504 is big enough for the e100s? Ifconfig did
not allow me to make them any bigger :(.
JES
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James B. MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Education
Nova Scotia, Canada
B3M 4B2
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