[PATCH] 802.1p priority (fixed)

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Jan 20 11:00:50 PST 2005


On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 04:23:01PM +0500, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 	Sorry, when compiling all in one, have used one older wrong diff. Of 
> course, this one should be used. If BSD community will approve my patch, 
> I also will make updates to vlan(4) and ifconfig(8) man pages.
> Because of my little BSD network infrastructure knowledge I hope that 
> guru will look at it and point me to the right way :)

This lets you create vlans, but I'm not sure what the point is if
nothing is done with the priority.  Is it simply that it lets you handle
traffic that is tagged this way and that your output packets have
priority one on the network?  I'm not sure what the intent of 802.1p
priority is.

-- Brooks

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