+ /*
+ * Note that we use a magic value here, its wierd I know
+ * its done because, some subset of rtl8169 hardware suffers from
+ * a problem in which frames received that are longer than
+ * the size set in RxMaxSize register return garbage sizes
+ * when received. To avoid this we need to turn off filtering,
+ * which is done by setting a value of 16383 in the RxMaxSize register
+ * and allocating 16k frames to handle the largest possible rx value
+ * thats what the magic math below does.
+ */
+ rtl8169_set_rxbufsize(tp, 16383 - VLAN_ETH_HLEN - ETH_FCS_LEN);