On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:18:16PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: > failing that, I have just had "contributed" > some code that produces an actual "vlan" netgraph node. > You attach it to the ethernet node.. I'm still > reading it to work out what it does..
One thing worth noting. I'm pretty sure that a netgraph vlan node is going to have all sorts of trouble with cards that support hardware vlan decoding (that's most of the gigabit Ethernet cards). The problem is that vlan'd frames won't make it to ether_input at all. I believe the correct solution is to implement a nic capability which can be used to turn this support on and off like we're supposed to be able to do for hardware checksuming. Alternativly, the current driver code could be modified to fake up a vlan header and then call ether_input with the packet when the vlan driver isn't loaded (it currently discards the packet.) There may even be something to be said for doing both. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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