VLAN issues
Joerg Sonnenberger
joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Mar 26 00:54:24 PDT 2007
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 06:09:06PM +0200, Gergo Szakal wrote:
> The rest of the ethernet NICs supported by DragonFly can run VLANs using
> software emulation in the vlan driver. However, most of them lack the
> capability of transmitting and/or receiving oversized frames. Using such
> a NIC as a parent interface implies a reduced MTU on the corresponding
> vlan interfaces. In the modern Internet, this is likely to cause tcp(4)
> connectivity problems due to massive, inadequate icmp(4) filtering that
> breaks the Path MTU Discovery mechanism.
It isn't likely to be that bad due to PPPoE :-)
Joerg
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