Re: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x

Ben Greear
2002-04-24T16:18:35Z

Some drivers work, more are being fixed. Others have to be
patched. All work if you set the MTU of the link to 1496.

We can use testing of patched drivers, so if you do patch any
and have good results, then let us know and the driver changes might
get pushed into the kernel sooner.

Ben

jd@epcnet.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> why is a there a experimental VLAN option in the stable 2.4.x-kernel, when it's useless without patching Network Drivers?
>
> Why isn't there a solution for all network drivers to accept frames 4 bytes longer on request of e.g. vconfig (like ifconfig setting promiscious mode on/off) ? Or to deny vconfig to add a vlan, if the network driver/hardware doesn't support this?
>
> Today the situation is as follows: The experimental VLAN-option is useless, if i dont patch my network drivers, otherwise there is no working VLAN function.
>
> Any future plans?
>
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