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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:50:23 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject:   Re: vlan(4) manpage
Message-ID:  <20010725095023.A21817@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010725191744.A77305@comp.chem.msu.su>; from yar@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:17:45PM %2B0400
References:  <20010725072042.A24573@comp.chem.msu.su> <20010725191744.A77305@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 07:17:45PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Thank Dima and Peter for your valuable comments. The next revision
> of the vlan(4) man page includes corrections and additions suggested
> by you. Moreover, I've added a paragraph on VLAN firmware support
> and written a whole subsection of tips on how to select and configure
> the right NIC to use with VLANs.

Excelent.  I had written something up just to fill void, but this is way
better.  A couple comments below.

> The parent interface is likely to be an ethernet one connected
> to a properly configured switch port.

The use of one confused me for a moment.  That might just be me though.
;-)

> .\"
> .Ss "Selecting the right network interface card to run VLANs through"
> By now, the only NIC that has hardware support for
> the 802.1Q VLAN technology in FreeBSD is
> .Xr ti 4 .

nge(4) supports this as well.

> .It Xr fxp 4
> supports oversized frames if both itself and the
> .Nm
> driver are compiled into the kernel, or if the
> .Dv FXP_FLAG_LONG_PKT_EN
> .Pq 0x20
> device flag is set on it.

I'm looking at fixing this.

-- Brooks

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