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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:51:15 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto
Message-ID:  <20010714125115.A17574@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <200107141649.f6EGnEb01827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:49:14PM -0400
References:  <20010713171342.A18472@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200107141649.f6EGnEb01827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:49:14PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:13:42 -0700, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien=
.net> said:
>=20
> > 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 [...]
>=20
> 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.

I'll ask my Cisco rep if they know of anyone using this feature.  If
people _really_ need it, they can always edit sys/net/ethernet.h so I'll
probably remove it for now.

-- Brooks

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