On Tue, 27 May 2003, Ben Greear wrote:
> James MacLean wrote:
> > 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 :(.
> I believe this may be a problem with VLANs and the eepro100 driver.
> If you use the e100 driver from Intel it should just work with VLANs.
> The eepro100 needs some hacking...archives and/or FAQ has info here:
> www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan.html
Thanks Ben. We were using the e100 driver. My concern was that I can only
set the mtu on it with ifconfig to a max of 1504. I am hoping that is
enough.
thanks again,
JES
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James B. MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Education
Nova Scotia, Canada
B3M 4B2
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