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Date:      Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:13:45 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Yony Yossef <yonyossef.lists@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Yehonatan Yossef <yoniy@mellanox.co.il>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, liranl@mellanox.co.il
Subject:   Re: HW VLAN Filtering on FreeBSD 6.3 + 7.0
Message-ID:  <20081116121345.GA952@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20def4870811160403i67f9e8d6i1a52e93d1b68c5ad@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20def4870811160403i67f9e8d6i1a52e93d1b68c5ad@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 02:03:54PM +0200, Yony Yossef wrote:
> I would like to enable my NIC HW VLAN filtering, is there any way for my
> driver to access the OS vlan table? (something like vlan_group_get_device on
> linux)
> 
> I understood from previous investigation that on FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 there's
> no ioctl informing the driver of vlan addition/removal. Is that correct?

Man pages to check out: vlan(4) and ifconfig(8).  I'm pretty sure the
vlan tagging feature is per-driver.

Also, the vlan(4) list of supported drivers is out of date (for example,
em(4) is missing), so be sure to check the man page of your NIC driver.

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