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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ais.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.232.56.18!news.ultranet.com!bigboote.WPI.EDU!stat.WPI.EDU!frobnoid From: robert mcdonald <frobnoid@wpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: ETHER_MAX_LEN Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 20:12:13 -0400 Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 12 Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970416200912.26415A-100000@stat.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: stat.wpi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5827 I complained about repeated "Receiver ring buffer overrun" messages... and someone suggested I comment out the line that logs the error in the kernel source file if_ed.c looking through this source, I see ETHER_MAX_LEN defined as 1518. Does this macro define the maximum size of an ethernet packet? (I want to increase it to avoid the errors if possible...) thanks.