Chris Friesen wrote: > David Miller wrote: > >> When you select VLAN, you by definition are asking for non-VLAN >> traffic to be elided. It is like plugging the ethernet cable >> into one switch or another. > > For max functionality it seems like the raw eth device should show > everything on the wire in promiscuous mode. > > If we want to sniff only the traffic for a specific vlan, we can sniff > the vlan device.
actually the impact can be quite negative, imagine doing a tcpdump on a 10gig interface with vlan's enabled - all of a sudden you might accidentally flood the system with a 100-fold increase in traffic and force the stack to dump all those packets for you. I'm still very reluctant about this patch, I think the current situation is OK for everyone and offers everyone the possibility to do what they need, without hidden consequences. Auke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
