From: Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com>
To: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
Cc: bridge@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH] Add vlan id to bridge forward database
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:18:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080429151843.GA10576@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31w4oltkx.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:43:42PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Jaime Medrano <jaime.medrano@gmail.com> writes:
> > Yes, I know. However, AFAIK out of band passing of the vlan tag is only
> > done when a vlan device is created and attached to the ethernet device
> > of the port.
>
> If the driver supports VLAN acceleration, it is usually on by default.
> At least I can't tcpdump VLAN packets with intact VLAN tags on my
> notebook's tg3 card -- even if I haven't loaded the 8021q module at
> all. It's rather annoying, really.
That's weird.
I've got a tg3 card and I see the tags in tcpdump unless I register a vlan
device to it.
I've taken a look at the source code of the tg3 driver and
vlan_hwaccel_receive_skb() only gets called if a prior
tg3_vlan_rx_register() has been made.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-17 16:13 [Bridge] [PATCH] Add vlan id to bridge forward database Jaime Medrano
2007-12-17 16:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-12-18 9:05 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-01-28 15:39 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-01-28 20:29 ` [Bridge] " Benny Amorsen
2008-03-17 18:35 ` [Bridge] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-02 9:30 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-04-28 20:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-04-29 8:24 ` Jaime Medrano
2008-04-29 12:43 ` Benny Amorsen
2008-04-29 15:18 ` Jaime Medrano [this message]
2008-04-29 23:16 ` richardvoigt
2008-04-30 2:25 ` Jonathan Thibault
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2007-12-17 16:13 Jaime Medrano
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