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Subject: Re: Problem with VLANs and via-velocity driver
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:40:05 +0100
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Patrick McHardy a =E9crit :
>
>>> There's some special-casing for VID 0 in velocity_init_cam_filter()=
=2E
>>> Does "ip link add link eth0 type vlan id 0" make any difference?
>>> If not, does "ip link set eth0 promisc on"?
>>>  =20
>>>      =20
>> When we patch the driver to support multiple vlan, we decide to use =
the
>> vlan 0 to desactivate the vlan filtering.
>>    =20
>
> Why? The usual behaviour is to receive both tagged and untagged
> frames.
>  =20
We decide this with fran=E7ois as an alternative to desactivate the NIC=
=20
vlan filtering instead of creating a modul parameter.
The vlan id 0 need to be created but not necessary activate.

In september 2008, we had a discution about exactly the same problem.
You speak about the possibility of an ALLVLAN device flag.

I think i proposed a patch to desactivate NIC vlan filtering when we ar=
e=20
in promisc mode but not used.
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R=E9gis S=E9guier