From: "Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <rask@sygehus.dk>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: network interface cards native vlans support in linux kernel?
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:57:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030911145555.M56042@sygehus.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030709152814.GC15293@gtf.org>
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:28:15 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 06:19:51PM +0300, Andrius Kasparavicius wrote:
> > hello, as far as i know, currently there is no native vlan support in
> > network device drivers. I mean, always need patching MTU.. add 4 bytes..
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> A few drivers still need patching, and unfortunately the VLAN driver
> patches floating around all need cleaning up.
What does a network device driver need to do to ensure VLAN compatibility? Is
it as simple as allocating buffer space for MTU + 4 bytes or is there more to
it than that?
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Regards,
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-11 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-09 15:19 network interface cards native vlans support in linux kernel? Andrius Kasparavicius
2003-07-09 15:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-11 14:57 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen [this message]
2003-10-22 12:06 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-10-22 17:01 ` Ben Greear
2003-11-12 19:48 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-07-09 17:15 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-09 19:12 ` Andrius Kasparavicius
2003-07-11 14:59 ` Andrius Kasparavicius
2003-07-11 17:11 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-11 17:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 17:25 ` Ben Greear
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2003-07-09 15:33 Hen, Shmulik
2003-07-09 17:13 ` Ben Greear
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