, 2001 12:26
To: C. Stephen Gunn
Cc: Brooks Davis; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sysctl net.link.vlan.link.proto
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.
>
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 ether
< said:
> 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 think it's actually a substantial lose, since all that will happen
is that the VLAN code will
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 05:13:42PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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
Garrett Wollman wrote:
>
> < 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 ha
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:49:14PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> < 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
