e1000e: bad short packets received when jumbos enabled on 82579

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When short packets are received with jumbos enabled on 82579, they can be
interpreted to have a receive address that does not match any configured
address.  This is due to a hardware bug that can be worked around by
reducing the number of IPG octets added when the packet is transferred from
the PHY to the MAC.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

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Bruce Allan 2011-09-30 08:07:00 +00:00 • committed by Jeff Kirsher

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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/ich8lan.c

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