On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:34:33PM -0700, andrei radulescu-banu wrote: > > Dear kernel networking gurus, > > I am trying to understand why tcpdump does not work properly for vlan packets > on linux. Here is the existing behavior, observed with: > - kernel 2.6.16, > - e1000 driver > - libpcap 0.9.6 > - tcpdump 3.9.6 > > > The e1000 driver has two modes when handling vlan frames: > (A) Default mode, when > - on rx, the mac includes vlan headers > - on tx, the mac expects tx frames to include vlan headers. > (B) Vlan hw accelerated mode, when: > - on rx, the mac does not include vlan headers, and instead passes vlan tag > information in the status field of the ring buffer > - on tx, the mac expects no vlan headers, and instead expects vlan tag > information to be passed in the status field of the ring buffer
I have seen similar behaviour. Once the kernel is compiled with VLAN
support the e1000 driver drops the vlan tag completely even when no
vlans are configured on that port. I would consider this beeing a bug
that enableing a kernel option changes behaviour even if the feature is
not in use.
As i was tracing dot1qinq i could actually see that only the outer
vlan tag was beeing dropped.
Flo
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