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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--u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 654D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24 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 iD8DBQE7UKKzXY6L6fI4GtQRAh6JAJ4qaAz2vp/DFOHQ3/9HxH6h57+H1QCghAk9 O3TEsQlKTOhHGOsJFEhOQa0= =3BZZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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