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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Bin Guo <bguo@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: expected behavior of PF_PACKET on NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX device?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:31:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47292C5E.4050709@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47292A99.5070805@linux-foundation.org>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> The code in AF_PACKET should fix the skb before passing to user space 
> so that there is
> no difference between accel and non-accel hardware.  Internal choices 
> shouldn't
> leak to user space.  Ditto, the receive checksum offload should be 
> fixed up as well.
Ok, I guess that will fix the sniffing issues and any user-space 
bridging type applications.

Currently, VLAN devices offer the ability to 'reorder' the header and 
explicitly remove the VLAN
header.  I assume we keep this feature and have the AF_PACKET logic 
check the device
flags to see if it should insert the VLAN header for hw-accel vlans?

Either way, if we sniff the underlying device, we should always get the 
VLAN header.

What about drivers and filtering VLANs?  It seems there is still a 
difference between software
vlans and hw-accel in this case.

Thanks,
Ben

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



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31 18:43 expected behavior of PF_PACKET on NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX device? Dave Johnson
2007-10-31 19:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-01  1:06   ` Ben Greear
2007-11-01  1:10     ` David Miller
2007-11-01  1:23     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-01  1:31       ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-11-01  4:50       ` David Miller
2007-11-01 15:04         ` Ben Greear
2007-11-01 21:35           ` David Miller
2007-11-01 21:36           ` Dave Johnson
2007-11-01 21:48             ` Rick Jones
2007-11-01 21:59               ` David Miller
2007-11-01 22:04                 ` Rick Jones
2007-11-01 22:07                   ` David Miller
2007-11-01 23:26                     ` Rick Jones
2007-11-05 17:46                       ` [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it Dave Johnson
2007-11-05 18:00                         ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-05 23:15                           ` David Miller
2007-11-06  0:21                             ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-06  0:35                               ` David Miller
2007-11-06 18:03                               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-11-06 18:56                                 ` Ben Greear
2007-11-06 20:08                                   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-11-06 23:55                                 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-11-05 17:47                       ` [PATCH 2/2] " Dave Johnson
2007-11-06  2:39                         ` Ramkrishna Vepa
2007-11-06  2:39                           ` Ramkrishna Vepa
2007-11-06 18:28                           ` Ramkrishna Vepa
2007-11-06 18:28                             ` Ramkrishna Vepa
2007-11-06 18:34                             ` Dave Johnson
2007-11-01 21:58             ` expected behavior of PF_PACKET on NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX device? David Miller
2007-11-02 18:08             ` Dave Johnson
2007-11-02 21:20               ` David Miller
2007-11-02 21:52               ` Michael Chan

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