Document the MTU problem and drivers supporting the 802.1Q MTU.

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.\" $NetBSD: vlan.4,v 1.5 2000/12/11 13:10:24 ad Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: vlan.4,v 1.6 2000/12/19 14:04:03 bouyer Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
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and
.Dv SIOCSIFVLAN
ioctls.
.Pp
To be compatible with others 802.1Q devices, the
.Nm
interface shall support a 1500 bytes MTU, which means that the parent
interface will have to handle frames that are 4 bytes larger than the
ethernet MTU. Drivers supporting this incerased MTU are:
.Bl -dash -compact indent
.It
drivers using the dp8390 core (
.Xr ec 4 ,
.Xr we 4 ,
.Xr ne 4 ,
possibly others)
.It
.Xr ex 4
.It
.Xr fxp 4
.It
.Xr le 4
.It
.Xr tulip 4
.It
.Xr epic 4
.El
.Nm
can be used with devices not supporting the 802.1Q MTU, but then the MTU of the
.Nm
interface will be 4 bytes too small and will not interoperate properly with
other 802.1Q devices, unless the MTU of the remote end is also lowered.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr ifconfig 8
.Sh HISTORY