Subject: Re: HW-assisted VLAN handling
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/31/2005 14:27:27
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:39:09PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> But let's try to keep focused on the point under discussion.  What
> should our API to hardware VLAN tagging look like?  What should the
> kernel do, on NIC hardware that can filter a small number of VLAN tags
> in hardware ---say 16 tags, as per another message--- when the
> sysadmin has enabled 64 distinct VLANs?  Or 1024, or 4096?

If it only has perfect matching:
Get them all and handle in software.

	-is

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