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Date:      Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:10:19 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VLAN offloads on FreeBSD 6.3 & 7.0
Message-ID:  <gfq98r$2rnp$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <20def4870811160610l5289267erfd7abafb9916b706@mail.gmail.com>

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Yony Yossef <yonyossef.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> Second, my NIC is capable of holding a vlan table on HW, filtering
> vlans on it's own, now I need to find a way to update that HW table
> with added/deleted VLANs in order to use that VLAN filtering offload.

If I may piggyback a question here: What is the use of a HW VLAN
filter? In what scenario do we receive significant traffic of frames
with our station address or multicast but not for any VLAN we have
joined?

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de




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