Re: Linux, tcpdump and vlan

[Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>]

Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> writes:

> Your suggestion of disabling VLAN acceleration in promiscous
> mode sounds like a reasonable solution until then ..

>From a user perspective:

I'm not sure promiscous mode is related to the problem.
Tcpdump without promiscous mode makes perfect sense.

I don't know very well VLAN code internals, but I think
the VLAN # is used for looking up the interface, so
presenting the "original" packet on the trunk device
would IMHO involve some skb cloning, and perhaps some
ethtool option could probably control that.

Not sure about untagged frames vs. tagged frames with
the default VLAN id - can the hardware at all differentiate
between them?


Or, perhaps it should be left (almost) as is - with "software"
VLANs the traffic always goes through the master interface,
but with "accelerated" mode it only goes through logical
interfaces and doesn't show up on master? Probably with
exception of invalid VLANs, which could be injected back to
master (because no logical device exists)?
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa