Re: [Etherboot-developers] Etherboot 4.7.14 (development) released

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>I have a small observation about frame sizes.  I am not sure how
>this might affect Etherboot, but VLANs add extra bytes into an
>ethernet packet.  It would be nice if Etherboot understood VLANs
>at some point, but for now it would be great if the design of
>Etherboot did not preclude using longer frames.  I haven't looked
>closely, but it sounds like it shouldn't be a problem.

Can you please explain how these larger frames would be reflected in
what the NIC sees? As I understand, in many cases the hardware discards
oversized frames anyway.