vlan0 on em0 has mtu 1496

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Apr 17 17:19:09 PDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:13:55PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> Why does a vlan created against em0 have a mtu of 1496.

Because the vlan header takes up 4 bytes.  With em(4) devices it looks
like fixing that should be a simple matter of raising the real
interface's MTU to 1504.

-- Brooks

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