Re: change the way e1000 is handling short VLAN frames

2007-09-24 Thread Emil Micek
Thanks for your replies. We contacted Arris (manufacturer of our CMTS) about this issue with links to relevant parts of specification about minimum size of VLAN tagged frames and it seems they'll acknowledge the problem and fix it in next firmware. Meantime i tried different suggestions posted th

Re: change the way e1000 is handling short VLAN frames

2007-09-21 Thread Emil Micek
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 07:59 -0400, jamal wrote: > > Current e1000 (according to our observations) first appends 4 bytes of > > VLAN tag and then pads the frame to 64 bytes with zeroes if necessary > > before transmiting it. > > Which would make it a bug. AFAIK, the minimum VLAN tagged packet going

change the way e1000 is handling short VLAN frames

2007-09-21 Thread Emil Micek
n 68 bytes. As i'm quite a newbie concerning linux sources and c programing, i'd like to ask you if this'd be trivial or complex change and if someone can point out relevant portions of the sources, where the necessary changes should be done. Regards Emil Micek - To unsubscribe from