Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:25:25 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto Message-ID: <3B53F675.2C04A740@softweyr.com> References: <20010713171342.A18472@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200107141649.f6EGnEb01827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> <<On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:13:42 -0700, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> said:
>
> > I'm working on modernizing the vlan device (making it loadable,
> > unloadable, and clonable) and I've run into this sysctl. It allows you
> > to set the ethernet protocol used for vlan packets. This doesn't strike
> > me as very useful [...]
>
> It has never proven useful to me, but all the VLAN-capable switches I
> have seen allow the Ethertype to be configured, so I figured that
> there must have been some need or requirement for it somewhere.
You've never encountered IP in LLC (or SNAP) frames? How odd.
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