Ethernet packet size for VLANs (2)
Solution: IEEE discovered that 99.9% devices would support 1514 + 4 = 1518 bytes
IEEE 802.3ab says that packets may be 1518 bytes
But additional bytes may only be VLAN tags
See FreeBSD VLAN_MTU, “mini jumbograms”
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