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From: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
Subject: Re: 802.1ad on linux
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:48:30 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 01:21:46PM +0200, Jens Osterkamp wrote:
> On Thursday 28 July 2011, Satendra... wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does linux kernel has support for 802.1ad ? if yes could u plz mention
> > the version?
> 
> No, but David Lamparter has just recently posted patches which implement this.
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=131093613717022&w=2
> 
> They work fine for me on top of net-next. I had to add EXPORT_SYMBOL for
> vlan_untag and vlan_do_receive to be able to build as a module.
> You will need his patch for iproute2 as well to be able to create 802.1ad
> VLAN devices.

I will be rebasing them onto current net-next HEAD this weekend. With
the VLAN cleanup in, some bits changed; I'll also do some reordering to
fix those symbols.


-David