From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vadim Kochan Subject: Re: [PATCH] man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:58:01 +0300 Message-ID: <20150916165801.GA12824@angus-think.lan> References: <1439839344-12772-1-git-send-email-vadim4j@gmail.com> <55DDDAF4.30904@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Vadim Kochan , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeremy Harris Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com ([209.85.212.180]:33044 "EHLO mail-wi0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753217AbbIPRBS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:01:18 -0400 Received: by wiclk2 with SMTP id lk2so82633323wic.0 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:01:17 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55DDDAF4.30904@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:27:48PM +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote: > On 17/08/15 20:22, Vadim Kochan wrote: > > +.BR reorder_hdr " is " on > > +then VLAN header will be not inserted immediately but only before passing to the > > +physical device (if this device does not support VLAN offloading), the similar > > +on the RX direction - by default the packet will be untagged before being > > +received by VLAN device. Reordering allows to accelerate tagging on egress and > > +to hide VLAN header on ingress so the packet looks like regular Ethernet packet, > > +at the same time it might be confusing while the packet sniffing as the VLAN header > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Does not read well. "for packet capture" perhaps? > -- > Jeremy > > Hi Jeremy, Thanks for you comment, I have sent a patch, let me know if it is correct now. And sorry for so late response. Thanks, Vadim Kochan