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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:55:45 +1000
From:      Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Addition to the vlan driver
Message-ID:  <48470F61.6060907@modulus.org>
In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0806041345x435ab61cq77f59a0cc0ae043f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2a41acea0806041345x435ab61cq77f59a0cc0ae043f@mail.gmail.com>

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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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