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Date:      Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:40:37 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [was] addition to ipfw (read vlans from bridge)..
Message-ID:  <4590B5D5.6080009@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200612252239.59737.max@love2party.net>
References:  <457DCD47.5090004@elischer.org>	<20061224093951.GD49045@comp.chem.msu.su>	<459032EA.1030601@elischer.org> <200612252239.59737.max@love2party.net>

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Max Laier wrote:


> 
> I'm not sure if you are mistaking Yar for me here.  As for my concerns - 
> consider them withdrawn.  I still don't like the idea that the code in 
> net*inet*/ip_fw2.c gets to know about VLAN internals, but if everybody 
> feels that it does belong there - fine.  I hereby resign from this 
> thread.
> 

In the latest patch it doesn't..
The only knowledge of vlans is added to if_bridge.c and bridge.c (in 6.x)

> Anyway, I hope everybody is having happy holidays.

not bad..

> 
>> If what you are suggesting is that we pass into ipfw an 'offset'
>> into the packet as well as the packet, then yes I like that idea,
>> but I didn't see Andre suggest it.
>>
>> I can however submit another patch that does that..
>>
>> However I'd like to hear from you a response to the mail
>> I sent you with a pure cleanup patch that removes mopst occurrances
>> of mtod() from ipfw.. if you did not get that email I can resend it
>> to you.

you are right max.. I sent the email to you not Yar..

it was just a cleanup patch.

>>
>>> There is also work in progress to introduce nested VLANs AKA Q-n-Q.
>>> They seem to present a challenge to the scheme you are implementing.
>> not a permanent problem.. it could be modified to handle it.
>> but I'll take it into account in the next version if
>> you think it is a required feature.. what is the maximum
>> nesting level?
> 




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