On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:49:14PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:13:42 -0700, Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > 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 [...]
>
> 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
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