misc/79352: no double tagged q-in-q nested vlan support

[Brooks Davis]

The following reply was made to PR misc/79352; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Donatas Gendvilas <donatas at lrtc.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/79352: no double tagged q-in-q nested vlan support
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:37:54 -0800

 On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:23:32AM +0000, Donatas Gendvilas wrote:
 >       we thing if_vlan.c should be modified to accept creation of
 >       double vlans and to deny creation of tripple, quad tagged
 >       vlans....
 
 I've seen other requests for double vlans, but why do you want to
 disallow tripple, etc. vlans?  That's more difficult since the problem
 now is that vlans aren't exactly ethernet interfaces so the vlan code
 refuses to connect to them.
 
 -- Brooks