From: Jeremy Harris <jgh@redhat.com>
To: Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:27:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55DDDAF4.30904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1439839344-12772-1-git-send-email-vadim4j@gmail.com>
On 17/08/15 20:22, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> +.BR reorder_hdr " is " on
> +then VLAN header will be not inserted immediately but only before passing to the
> +physical device (if this device does not support VLAN offloading), the similar
> +on the RX direction - by default the packet will be untagged before being
> +received by VLAN device. Reordering allows to accelerate tagging on egress and
> +to hide VLAN header on ingress so the packet looks like regular Ethernet packet,
> +at the same time it might be confusing while the packet sniffing as the VLAN header
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Does not read well. "for packet capture" perhaps?
--
Jeremy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-26 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-17 19:22 [PATCH] man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering Vadim Kochan
2015-08-26 15:27 ` Jeremy Harris [this message]
2015-09-16 16:58 ` Vadim Kochan
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