On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 12:22:56AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > Why would you want to turn them off if the hardware supports it?  How many 
> > VLANs are you working with, anyway?  Looking them up is almost certainly 
> > cheaper than copying data that is guaranteed not to be in cache.
> 
> I want to turn them off to avoid bugs such as the one which started this
> thread, and to get useful output from tcpdump.

Bugs have to be fixed, not worked around by disabling a feature.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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