From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jul 14 12:51:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A4D37B403 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:51:20 -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 f6EJpFm18594; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:51:15 -0700 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:51:15 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Garrett Wollman Cc: net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto Message-ID: <20010714125115.A17574@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010713171342.A18472@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200107141649.f6EGnEb01827@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u3/rZRmxL6MmkK24" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --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: > < 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