Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:58:00 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: "Andrew Snow" <andrew@modulus.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Addition to the vlan driver Message-ID: <2a41acea0806041458p2f498dacvdf33dfbca75d8554@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48470F61.6060907@modulus.org> References: <2a41acea0806041345x435ab61cq77f59a0cc0ae043f@mail.gmail.com> <48470F61.6060907@modulus.org>
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> wrote: > Jack Vogel wrote: >> >> What I would like to do is add some code into the vlan_ioctl() routine >> that will make a call >> to the PARENT ioctl with SETVLAN type and an argument of the tag. >> >> By doing this both the em and igb drivers will be able to enable >> hardware vlan filtering as >> well, a feature we've never been able to use. > > I don't think vlan filtering is needed much, since I always use VLANs > with switches that do the filtering at the port level. But it still > sounds like a good idea and I can't think why not. > > - Andrew > Sam is going to make some change that should suit my needs, waiting to see his code to make my changes. Jackhome | help
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