Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:43:57 +0200 From: "Yony Yossef" <yonyossef.lists@gmail.com> To: "Jack Vogel" <jfvogel@gmail.com> Cc: tom@tomjudge.com, eitans@mellanox.co.il, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, liranl@mellanox.co.il Subject: Re: VLAN filtering on FreeBSD 7.0 / 6.3 Message-ID: <20def4870810281543g3434d380o83a847c6946116ef@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a41acea0810281009o4398130ahb7c80cb26403e21f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20def4870810280743v50b32317v3711245fc9110cbe@mail.gmail.com> <2a41acea0810281009o4398130ahb7c80cb26403e21f@mail.gmail.com>
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> This change requires kernel changes that may not be compatible with 6.X, I > am not sure, > I am not the owner of that code. Some reason you can't use 7.1 which will > have everything > you need? > I'm bound to 6.3 and 7.0 at the moment. Does the vlan ioctls exist only from 7.1 and fourth? If so, are there any kernel patches to make 6.3 / 7.0 support it as well? > > TSO is a hardware feature, I have never tested this, but my suspicion is > that if > its enabled on the hardware that it will transparently happen in the > outbound > TX stream, but I am not sure. > My hardware works fine, I have TSO working on the regular interface. but it seems like vlan interfaces does not inherit the parent device capabilities. > > Jack > > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Yony Yossef <yonyossef.lists@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have two questions about VLANs on FreeBSD 6.3/7.0. >> >> 1. >> I'm trying to understand whether HW VLAN filtering can be supported. >> Looking at the code I can't find a proper ioctl that will inform the >> driver about a vlan creation/destruction. >> Is there a way of doing it? >> >> 2. >> Second issue - is there way of enabling TSO on vlan interfaces? >> >> Thanks >> Yony >> > >
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