VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0

[Christian Weisgerber]

Yony Yossef <yonyossef.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Second, my NIC is capable of holding a vlan table on HW, filtering
> vlans on it's own, now I need to find a way to update that HW table
> with added/deleted VLANs in order to use that VLAN filtering offload.

If I may piggyback a question here: What is the use of a HW VLAN
filter? In what scenario do we receive significant traffic of frames
with our station address or multicast but not for any VLAN we have
joined?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de