C. Stephen Gunn writes:
> > I'm working on modernizing the vlan device (making it loadable,
> > unloadable, and clonable) and I've run into this sysctl.
>
> This shoud allow you to move the check for 802.1q packets down into
> the normal ether_demux() which classifies packets based on ethertype.
>
> The former code was a check right above the main switch statement in
> ether_demux() because it was a sysctl, not a constant.
>
> I have some other patches around that ease the interrupt-time requirements
> by scheduling a NETISR for vlan traffic. I wasn't ever sure if that was
> a true win, so I didn't contrib them. I could dig them up if you're
> really interested in spiffing up the VLAN code. ;-)
May be most right way to handle VLANs is netgraph mechanism ?
I've dig a bit into code and found that to get such mechanism working
it need to add ng_iface node hook to inject not demuxed frames. And
fix a bit code related to ARP.
> - Steve
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