Addition to the vlan driver
Andrew Snow
andrew at modulus.org
Wed Jun 4 21:56:02 UTC 2008
Jack Vogel wrote:
> What I would like to do is add some code into the vlan_ioctl() routine
> that will make a call
> to the PARENT ioctl with SETVLAN type and an argument of the tag.
>
> By doing this both the em and igb drivers will be able to enable
> hardware vlan filtering as
> well, a feature we've never been able to use.
I don't think vlan filtering is needed much, since I always use VLANs
with switches that do the filtering at the port level. But it still
sounds like a good idea and I can't think why not.
- Andrew
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