On 9/5/07, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jack Vogel wrote: > > I had an idea, I was debugging a problem on my new 10G driver a week back, > > and found I had the hardware vlan filter enabled by accident, this led me to > > wonder about supporting this hardware feature in the driver... > > > > I have done some experimentation, and find that when the vlan device is > > configured, ultimately the SETMULTI ioctl will happen in my driver, this > > means I could add code that checks the trunk, finds there is a vlan and > > then sets the tag into the filter. > > > > Any interest, or thoughts ya or nay about my doing this? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Jack > > Overloading the SETMULTI ioctl is probably a bad idea for anything more > than a proof-of-concept. From a cleanliness point of view, making the > software vlan module aware of this as a hardware offload capability and > able to control it via new ioctls sounds more reasonable. > > Scott > >
You're right, that would be ideal, so is there any other adapters with this capability, and is the vlan driver owner interested in implementing it? Jack _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
