From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Harris Subject: Re: [PATCH] man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:27:48 +0100 Message-ID: <55DDDAF4.30904@redhat.com> References: <1439839344-12772-1-git-send-email-vadim4j@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Vadim Kochan , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58150 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751697AbbHZP1v (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:27:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1439839344-12772-1-git-send-email-vadim4j@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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