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Description of problem:
The NIC drivers from the linux kernel must be pached in order not to drop
"oversized frames" received. A tagged frame has a suplimentary header (tag)
which contains informations about the vlan id it comes from, etc. The tagged
frames are 4 bytes longer that the normal untagged ethernet frames. Almost all
NIC drivers from the linux kernel (except e100 I suppose) drop this frames
because are considered being oversized before untagging them.

What happens: let's suppose you have some users/workstations behind such a
router (having vlan subinterfaces for each users vlan), and let's look at the
problem from the primary interface (that handling their vlan). Then sending a
frame to one of them that frame will go out via, let's say, eth7.700. The the
frame will pe tagged (vlan tag will be added to the frame) and the frame goes
out to the trunk port from the switch via eth7. This is ok.
      When the user sends a frame to the router it has the following route: user
switch -untagged-> switch port from user's vlan -tagging-> trunk ports between
switches or router and switch -> router's primary interface -untagging->
router's vlan subinterface.

If the frame is too big (max ethernet frame size - 4bytes +1 byte) then the vlan
tag is added it will be dropped by the most nic drivers.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Upload problem via a linux router having 802.1Q VLAN subinterfaces

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure a router with vlan subinterfaces.
2. connect it in a trunk port havind 802.1Q encapsulation form a managed
ethernet switch
3. from a user connected in the vlan coresponding to the vlan subinterface try
to upload something to a host behind the router.
    

Actual Results:  After the first big packet (the first packet bigger that 1496
bytes) the upload will freeze.

Additional info:

Tested with 3c59x, ne2k-pci (8390), 8139too, sis900 and eepro100 drivers. e100
seems to work without patch (anyway I patched it in my customized kernels).

I think also the guys from kernel.org should think about patching the nic
drivers to work properly with 802.1Q tags. There is vlan support in kernel since  
2.4.14.