From owner-freebsd-audit Wed Jul 25 9:50:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E9A37B409; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f6PGoNA29623; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:50:23 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:50:23 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Yar Tikhiy Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Dima Dorfman , Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: vlan(4) manpage Message-ID: <20010725095023.A21817@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010725072042.A24573@comp.chem.msu.su> <20010725191744.A77305@comp.chem.msu.su> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010725191744.A77305@comp.chem.msu.su>; from yar@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:17:45PM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:17:45PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > Thank Dima and Peter for your valuable comments. The next revision > of the vlan(4) man page includes corrections and additions suggested > by you. Moreover, I've added a paragraph on VLAN firmware support > and written a whole subsection of tips on how to select and configure > the right NIC to use with VLANs. Excelent. I had written something up just to fill void, but this is way better. A couple comments below. > The parent interface is likely to be an ethernet one connected > to a properly configured switch port. The use of one confused me for a moment. That might just be me though. ;-) > .\" > .Ss "Selecting the right network interface card to run VLANs through" > By now, the only NIC that has hardware support for > the 802.1Q VLAN technology in FreeBSD is > .Xr ti 4 . nge(4) supports this as well. > .It Xr fxp 4 > supports oversized frames if both itself and the > .Nm > driver are compiled into the kernel, or if the > .Dv FXP_FLAG_LONG_PKT_EN > .Pq 0x20 > device flag is set on it. I'm looking at fixing this. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7XvjOXY6L6fI4GtQRArrGAKDEbABk6WfhiWMCrRgmkkl1l+r2XQCghUmm okC49sXmYxFgE6VTY+1qs4o= =ixLR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message