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"Long frame" is the well-known term found in h/w documentation

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from several vendors, so prefer it over other synonyms.
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Yaroslav Tykhiy 2007-04-24 11:35:47 +00:00
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@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ help in processing VLANs.
Such interfaces are automatically recognized by their capabilities.
Depending on the level of sophistication found in a physical
interface, it may do full VLAN processing or just be able to
receive and transmit frames exceeding the maximum Ethernet frame size
by the length of a 802.1Q header.
receive and transmit long frames (up to 1522 bytes including an Ethernet
header and FCS).
The capabilities may be user-controlled by the respective parameters to
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Cm vlanhwtag
@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ VLANs using software emulation in the
.Nm
driver.
However, most of them lack the capability
of transmitting and receiving oversized frames.
of transmitting and receiving long frames.
Assigning such an interface as the parent to
.Nm
will result in a reduced MTU on the corresponding
@ -171,12 +171,12 @@ and
.Pp
The
.Nm
driver automatically recognizes devices that natively support oversized frames
driver automatically recognizes devices that natively support long frames
for
.Nm
use and calculates the appropriate frame MTU based on the
capabilities of the parent interface.
Some other interfaces not listed above may handle oversized frames,
Some other interfaces not listed above may handle long frames,
but they do not advertise this ability of theirs.
The MTU setting on
.Nm