Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:10:19 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0 Message-ID: <gfq98r$2rnp$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <20def4870811160610l5289267erfd7abafb9916b706@mail.gmail.com>
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Yony Yossef <yonyossef.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > Second, my NIC is capable of holding a vlan table on HW, filtering > vlans on it's own, now I need to find a way to update that HW table > with added/deleted VLANs in order to use that VLAN filtering offload. If I may piggyback a question here: What is the use of a HW VLAN filter? In what scenario do we receive significant traffic of frames with our station address or multicast but not for any VLAN we have joined? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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