On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:35 AM, İhsan Doğan <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 26.09.2012 12:53, schrieb David Burgess: > >>> the built in Via Rhine ethernet interfaces do not support VLAN >>> HW tagging >> >> News to me. I have one running with vlans just fine. You may have other >> issues. > > The Via Rhine interfaces do support hw vlan tagging: > options=8280b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE> > > While the Intel card has: > options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > It's also stated on the VLAN configuration page: > "Not all drivers/NICs support 802.1Q VLAN tagging properly. On cards > that do not explicitly support it, VLAN tagging will still work, but the > reduced MTU may cause problems. See the pfSense handbook for information > on supported cards." > > That's why I wanted to use an interface with proper VLAN support. >
It supports long frames so the noted problems aren't an issue with such a NIC. Not sure why the add-in card doesn't work, I know there are people running Intel PRO/1000 PCI cards in Soekris hardware, but not sure exactly which card(s). _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
