Subject: Re: Networking with .0.9.49...
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 05:14:11 MDT
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>It appears the gmac ethernet driver puts datalen+2 bytes into
>the skbuff (is this a bug?). Since MOL expects at most
>1514 bytes (the protocol limit), the packet is dropped and
>an error message is printed.
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>I'll upload the fix (mol-0.9.50) in an hour or so.
Interesting... I'll check that. AFAIK, the skbuf is extended by 2 bytes
and 2 bytes are reserved at the beginning of the skbuf. This is done to
align the IP packet datas on a long word boundary, which makes copying of
those datas later on more efficient.
Ben.
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