From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
andrei radulescu-banu <iubica2@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux, tcpdump and vlan
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:45:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38x9cbdo6.fsf@maximus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070719160033.628f39e1@oldman.hamilton.local> (Stephen Hemminger's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:00:33 +0100")
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> Not at runtime, acceleration is always on if you compile kernel with vlan
> support. That is a design mistake as far as I can tell.
I think so.
>> However seeing unknown tags on master device (with tcpdump etc)
>> would certainly be useful.
>
> Only in promiscuous mode. In some sense tag is part of the mac address.
Well, in "some sense" maybe, though the MAC address is rather
strictly defined to be a 6-octet value. I can live with
promiscous anyway, it's really minor issue.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-07-18 22:57 ` Linux, tcpdump and vlan Patrick McHardy
2007-07-18 23:22 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-18 23:34 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-19 0:01 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-19 0:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-19 13:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-19 13:41 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-19 14:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-19 14:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-19 15:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-19 15:45 ` Krzysztof Halasa [this message]
2007-07-19 15:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-19 15:47 andrei radulescu-banu
2007-07-19 16:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-19 16:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-07-19 16:47 ` Ben Greear
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-19 16:02 andrei radulescu-banu
2007-07-20 19:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-20 20:34 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-21 11:32 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-21 17:57 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-21 21:15 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-07-19 17:46 andrei radulescu-banu
2007-07-19 18:20 andrei radulescu-banu
2007-07-19 19:28 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-19 21:38 andrei radulescu-banu
2007-07-19 23:38 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-20 20:19 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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