Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:49:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto Message-ID: <200107141649.f6EGnEb01827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010713171342.A18472@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010713171342.A18472@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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<<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. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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