Re: e1000 and 802.1ad/stacked vlan tagging

2006-08-28 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
Hello Jesse, thank you for answering anyway. Though I think your answer covers only the obvious half of the problem. Indeed one might think that this solves the issue - as long as there are only linux kernels involved. Unfortunately my setup is a bit more complicated in terms of hardware. So I sho

RE: e1000 and 802.1ad/stacked vlan tagging

2006-08-28 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > thank you for answering anyway. Though I think your answer covers > only the obvious half of the problem. > Indeed one might think that this solves the issue - as long as there > are only linux kernels involved. Unfortunately my setup is a bit more > complicated in

Re: e1000 and 802.1ad/stacked vlan tagging

2006-08-28 Thread Ben Greear
Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: Hello Jesse, thank you for answering anyway. Though I think your answer covers only the obvious half of the problem. Indeed one might think that this solves the issue - as long as there are only linux kernels involved. Unfortunately my setup is a bit more complicat

Re: e1000 and 802.1ad/stacked vlan tagging

2006-08-29 Thread Stephan von Krawczynski
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:53:36 -0700 "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried enlarging both real-device and first vlan interface mtu but > > that does not work out. I really thought that the visible device > > setting of mtu=1500 should have worked out and that the driver (or > >

RE: e1000 and 802.1ad/stacked vlan tagging

2006-08-29 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > I can confirm that the setup seems to work if enlarging the hw if mtu > to 1508. This is good. Okay, good to hear. > Nevertheless I think that the receive buffer size of a > physical device should always be MAX(all virtual device mtu + > tags and the like), you kn