Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:55:45 +1000 From: Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Addition to the vlan driver Message-ID: <48470F61.6060907@modulus.org> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0806041345x435ab61cq77f59a0cc0ae043f@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a41acea0806041345x435ab61cq77f59a0cc0ae043f@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Jack Vogel wrote: > What I would like to do is add some code into the vlan_ioctl() routine > that will make a call > to the PARENT ioctl with SETVLAN type and an argument of the tag. > > By doing this both the em and igb drivers will be able to enable > hardware vlan filtering as > well, a feature we've never been able to use. I don't think vlan filtering is needed much, since I always use VLANs with switches that do the filtering at the port level. But it still sounds like a good idea and I can't think why not. - Andrew
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?48470F61.6060907>