Bug#433307: linux-image-2.6-k7: problem solved - not a bug
Package: linux-image-2.6-k7
Followup-For: Bug #433307
The real problem: my cable modem responds with a bogus mtu (576) upon
a dhcp query - however, larger packets are still received (!!!)
Kernel versions <= 2.6.18 silently handle larger packets
(dev->hard_mtu remains 1514).
Kernel versions >= 2.6.19 adapt the receive buffer size to match the
mtu (in order to handle jumbo frames). The bogus mtu causes the frame
rx errors because it's typically smaller than actual received packet
payload size.
The workaround: supersede the mtu for this interface, by adding the
following lines to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf :
interface "eth1" {
supersede interface-mtu 1500;
}
Please close this bug.
Cheers,
Avi.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-k7 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.22-1-k7 2.6.22-3 Linux 2.6.22 image on AMD K7
linux-image-2.6-k7 recommends no packages.
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