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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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Subject: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto
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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


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