From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel when promiscuous mode Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:19:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20071112.151923.77768525.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4738D70C.4060404@nortel.com> <20071112.145716.06352378.davem@davemloft.net> <20071112231516.GA15227@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, djohnson+linux-kernel@sw.starentnetworks.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, joonwpark81@gmail.com, cfriesen@nortel.com, kaber@trash.net To: w@1wt.eu Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071112231516.GA15227@1wt.eu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Willy Tarreau Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:15:16 +0100 > I can say that sometimes you'd like to be aware that one of your > VLANs is wrong and you'd simply like to sniff the wire to guess the > correct tag. And on production, you simply cannot remove other > VLANs, otherwise you disrupt the service. If you were plugged into the wrong physical switch, how might you debug that problem in production? :-) Really, it's the same issue, just virtualized, as in the name for the feature, VLAN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/