Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I would *really*, *really* like to see a way in *Nemo* for hardware
> drivers to indicate that a given driver is not capable of handling full
> size VLAN frames.
> 
> I.e. it should be possible to write a native Nemo driver that doesn't
> support full VLAN frames.  (Or convert a GLDv2 driver to a Nemo
> driver...)
> 
> This fasttrack addresses legacy drivers, but still requires them to be
> updated to get access to VLANs, without addressing the problem as it
> stands for native Nemo drivers.
> 
> Presumably clearview will need the ability to manage this for native
> Nemo drivers as well (since it will itself emulate a Nemo driver).  Can
> the project team elaborate on this a bit more?

That was already ARC'ed as part of PSARC 2006/499 (see 
MAC_CAPAB_LIMITED_VLAN as proposed in that case.)

-Seb

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