From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S939551AbXGSPpw (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:45:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937863AbXGSPpR (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:45:17 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:46773 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937713AbXGSPpP (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:45:15 -0400 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Patrick McHardy , andrei radulescu-banu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux Netdev List Subject: Re: Linux, tcpdump and vlan References: <878246.51044.qm@web56608.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <469E9AC8.3090603@trash.net> <20070719144131.0c230c8f@oldman.hamilton.local> <20070719160033.628f39e1@oldman.hamilton.local> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:45:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070719160033.628f39e1@oldman.hamilton.local> (Stephen Hemminger's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:00:33 +0100") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger writes: > Not at runtime, acceleration is always on if you compile kernel with vlan > support. That is a design mistake as far as I can tell. I think so. >> However seeing unknown tags on master device (with tcpdump etc) >> would certainly be useful. > > Only in promiscuous mode. In some sense tag is part of the mac address. Well, in "some sense" maybe, though the MAC address is rather strictly defined to be a 6-octet value. I can live with promiscous anyway, it's really minor issue. -- Krzysztof Halasa