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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC VLAN 01/10]: Fix off-by-ones in VLAN ID checks
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:16:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46658C5F.8050302@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070605143651.23717.20253.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> [VLAN]: Fix off-by-ones in VLAN ID checks
>
> The valid range of VLAN IDs is 0-4095, fix using ID 4095.
>   
Per http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1Q-1998.pdf
page 69

0xFFF is reserved for future use, so we should not be using VLANs with 
that VID.

Thanks,
Ben


-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com



  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-05 14:36 [RFC VLAN 00/10]: VLAN netlink support try 2 Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 01/10]: Fix off-by-ones in VLAN ID checks Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 16:16   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-06-05 18:16     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 02/10]: Convert name-based configuration functions to struct netdevice * Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 03/10]: Move some device intialization code to dev->init callback Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 04/10]: Move vlan_group allocation to seperate function Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 05/10]: Split up device checks Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:36 ` [RFC VLAN 06/10]: Move device registation to seperate function Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 07/10]: Return proper error codes in register_vlan_device Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 08/10]: Use 32 bit value for skb->priority mapping Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 09/10]: Keep track of number of QoS mappings Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 14:37 ` [RFC VLAN 10/10]: Use rtnl_link API Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 21:31   ` Ben Greear
2007-06-05 21:58     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 22:03       ` Ben Greear
2007-06-05 16:25 ` [RFC VLAN 00/10]: VLAN netlink support try 2 Ben Greear
2007-06-05 18:28   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-05 20:08     ` Ben Greear
2007-06-05 21:12       ` Patrick McHardy

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