From owner-freebsd-net Tue Jul 17 1:20:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E0A337B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 01:20:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=25f6b9e92e251f8034eae016d27c390d) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15MQAX-00012l-00; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:25:25 -0600 Message-ID: <3B53F675.2C04A740@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:25:25 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Brooks Davis , net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto References: <20010713171342.A18472@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200107141649.f6EGnEb01827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message