On 8/31/07, Tom Judge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Vogel wrote: > > I was just working on a bug in the Oplin driver that had me look > > a bit more at VLAN code than I had previously. > > > > FreeBSD has apparently never used the hardware vlan filtering > > that our hardware can do, is there a systemic reason for this, > > or has the code lagged in its use of the system? > > > > I at least don't understand how the driver is supposed to get > > the vlan id to set in the filter, am I just unenlightened? :) > > > > If this is doable I can add code into em as well as ixgbe. > > > > Jack > > This isn't really directly related but could be important for some > users. If you where to use this would the card handle Q in Q properly > with the filter on or would there have to be some form of administrative > option to turn the hardware filter on/off?
I like flexibility, so having it be a feature that could be enabled or not seems like a good idea to me. Once I understand the situation we'll see. Cheers, Jack _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
